Which races are “red”, comrade Alexis?

Let’s go with the blue and say that Alexis Tsipras regrets the borderless seas and all the rest, but the red?

Let’s not give weight to the fact that – at least from the posters and videos – blue is not what characterises the country, namely blue. Let’s not give any weight either to the fact that “red” is burgundy, sort of burgundy-red somehow.

But let’s stick to the point. As for the blue of the homeland, okay, much can be said even about something Prespes if some people remember, or about something about seas that have no borders and so on. The “our struggles” thing though and the red of the new party needs some clarification.

What are the struggles that Alexis and his comrades who are waiting at the door of Koumundourou for a nod to run alongside him. Walking the streets of Genoa maybe? The marches and molotofs which are dangerous depending on which side one is on, as one soul who wanted to rebrand himself used to say;

Is it the upper and lower squares and the hangings in Syntagma or the hunt first for his ministers and MPs PASOK, who now consider themselves as progressive as SYRIZA or then everyone else in those years of… indignation and instrumentalization.

Unless the struggles are about the Thessaloniki programme, the “go back, madam Merkel” and tearing up the memoranda “with a law and an article”. Maybe again the struggles include that famous 17-hour negotiation that brought the country a third memorandum, €100 billion in extra costs and a tax hike with 29 new taxes.

May also be the closure of banks and capital controlsamong the struggles mentioned by the potential president of the new party.

Because struggles did indeed make some people, there is simply no hereditary… charisma and it certainly doesn’t concern those who today invoke them. Never mind that historically there have been many name and address disputes.

Something like that, however, is reminiscent of what people say about… some tricks.