At the beginning of January, 500,000 miners in the nationalised coal industry in India went on strike against governmental plans to privatise coal mining. This monumental show of strength is indicative both of the tensions within Indian society and the pressure that is being brought to bear on the leadership of the working class to put up a fight.

We publish here a further statement from the Communist Tendency of SYRIZA, which outlines the inevitable confrontation and collision between the SYRIZA-led government – which was elected on a programme of opposing austerity – and the Troika – the IMF, EC, and ECB – which is demanding continued cuts and “structural reforms”.

We publish here the latest statement of the Communist Tendency SYRIZAon the recent developments in Greece. The new SYRIZA-led government should stay true to its commitments and keep away from any new agreement, which would only be a trap to confine Greece within the terms of the Memorandum – i.e. the Troika’s programme of austerity.