The conflict of two different opinions within it New Left the President of the party confirmed with his post, Alexis Haritsis, after his proposal for an internal party referendum on the prospect of progressive partnerships was rejected at the party’s Central Committee meeting last weekend.
As Mr. Haritsis mentions, “it is known that in New Left there are different views on how we should move from here,” urging party members to open the debate on progressive partnerships.
In detail, the post:
The (New) Left at a Crossroads In the Left, historically, there have been two divergent approaches to what its stance should be in times of crisis.
The first insists on the logic of the autonomous course and a hard core of ideological and political references. As a rule, it is a posture of entrenchment and folding in the name of adverse conditions.
The second is looking for a way out on fronts with ideologically neighboring social and political forces. As a rule, it is an attitude that arises from the logic of urgency. What unites us is more than what separates us.
These two lines are in dialogue, collide and compose. But at every turn, one sets the tone.
It is well known that in the New Left there are different views on how we should move from here on. And this is completely reasonable and legitimate.
I have stated my position explicitly and openly. It’s not just a personal position. It is the position of the founding conference of the New Left: Popular Front with a common program against the Mitsotakis regime and the rise of the extreme right.
I firmly believe that this position communicates the basic demand of leftist and progressive citizens in Greece in 2025.
And I also believe that it also represents the majority of the organized members of the New Left.
Maybe I’m wrong. But this is something we have to find out: what do the people who fight for the New Left think.
I consider it a matter of political honesty and party democracy.
We are in a moment when the social demand is the unity of the forces of the plural Left and the progressive space as a whole.
And only through a broad pool of forces that will be convincingly opposed to the Right, will the most dynamic, most alive strata of Greek society be able to express themselves.
All those who are suffocating and looking for a way out, who seek political change. People mobilize and take matters into their own hands when they feel that a force is emerging that expresses their material interests, communicates with their ideas, connects with demands that encapsulate the great stakes of our time, and can change relationships.
That is why I believe that what matters today is unity and reconstruction. With what’s missing: spikes. Within this pole there will obviously be different opinions, tendencies and currents. And there I want to see the New Left.
Because the New Left can have a leading role in this case.
Because it has advanced programming positions.
Because he is concerned with applying left-wing politics to today. In the great disputes of our time, in the daily problems and anxieties of society.
And that is why I believe that the members of the New Left should be able to express their opinion.
The majority of the Central Committee disagrees.
I hear the political dissent.
I don’t agree, but I hear her.
However, I feel that a party past that previously plagued us, because party structures were left to not work, should not operate so traumatically that it leads us to question openness, to the denial of democratic debate, to centralization, to the self-sufficiency of structures that do not breathe.
So let’s open the discussion.
In the final analysis, at this critical juncture, the course of things in our party and more broadly in the left field can only be determined by the base of the party and the world of the Left.