Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras last week announced he will step down. He has lost his parliamentary majority and Syriza is split, with left leader Lafazanis announcing the formation of a new party, Popular Unity. Alan Woods analyses the latest events in the Greek crisis and highlights the failure of reformism that these demonstrate.

Last week, Greek Prime Minister Alexi Tsipras called for new elections on 20 September. At the same time the Left Platform within Syriza has announced the setting up of a new party which will run in these elections. We publish here a statement from the Greek Marxists in the Communist Tendency of Syriza about these latest developments.

For weeks now, journalists and TV crews have been camped night and day outside Calais reporting on the “mass invasion” of the Channel Tunnel by “hordes” of migrants. The Tories and the right-wing press have whipped up a hysterical campaign against migrants to distract from their attacks on workers in Britain.