{"id":7199,"date":"2026-05-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7199"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:00:00","slug":"which-races-are-red-comrade-alexis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7199","title":{"rendered":"Which races are &#8220;red&#8221;, comrade Alexis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s go with the blue and say that <b>Alexis Tsipras regrets the borderless seas<\/b> and all the rest, but the red?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not give weight to the fact that &#8211; at least from the posters and videos &#8211; blue is not what characterises the country, namely blue. Let&#8217;s not give any weight either to the fact that <b>&#8220;red&#8221; is burgundy, sort of burgundy-red somehow.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s stick to the point. As for the blue of the homeland, okay, <b>much can be said even about something<\/b> <b>Prespes<\/b> if some people remember, or about something about seas that have no borders and so on. <b>The &#8220;our struggles&#8221; thing though and the red of the new party needs some clarification.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>What are the struggles that Alexis and his comrades<\/b> who are waiting at the door of Koumundourou for a nod to run alongside him. <b>Walking the streets of Genoa maybe?<\/b> The <b>marches<\/b> and <b>molotofs<\/b> <b>which are dangerous depending on which side one is on,<\/b> as one soul who wanted to rebrand himself<\/b> used to say;<\/p>\n<p>Is it <b>the upper and lower squares and the hangings in<\/b> <b>Syntagma<\/b> or <b>the hunt first for his ministers and MPs<\/b> <b>PASOK,<\/b> who now consider themselves as progressive as <b>SYRIZA<\/b> or then everyone else in those <b>years of&#8230; indignation and instrumentalization.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Unless the struggles are about the Thessaloniki programme, the <b>&#8220;go back, madam<\/b> <b>Merkel<\/b>&#8221; and <b>tearing up the memoranda &#8220;with a law and an article&#8221;. <\/b>Maybe again the struggles include that<b> famous 17-hour negotiation<\/b> that brought the country a <b>third memorandum, \u20ac100 billion in extra costs and a tax hike with 29 new taxes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>May also be <b>the closure of banks and capital controls<\/b>among the struggles mentioned by the potential president of the new party.<\/p>\n<p>Because struggles did indeed make some people, there is simply no hereditary&#8230; charisma and it certainly doesn&#8217;t concern those who today invoke them. Never mind that <b>historically there have been many name and address disputes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Something like that, however, is reminiscent of what people say about&#8230; <b>some tricks.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the blue one we can say that Alexis Tsipras regrets the seas that have no borders and everything else, but the red one?<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s not give &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}