19.05.2012 - 09:14 [ Guardian ]

Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras: ´It´s a war between people and capitalism´

Tsipras, who turns 38 in July, wants me to know that the war is not personal. The enemy is not Berlin, until now the biggest provider of the monumental rescue funds keeping the debt-stricken economy afloat. „It is not between nations and peoples,“ he says. „On the one side there are workers and a majority of people and on the other are global capitalists, bankers, profiteers on stock exchanges, the big funds. It‘s a war between peoples and capitalism … and as in each war what happens on the frontline defines the battle. It will be decisive for the war elsewhere.“