Download or read book Defiance written by Roger Silverman and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This socialist history of modern Greece tells the story of its rebirth in struggle, the heroic resistance to Nazi occupation, the civil war and its aftermath, the colonels' dictatorship and its overthrow, the rise and fall of PASOK, the debt crisis, the popular uprising of 2010-12, the election of SYRIZA, the referendum and the subsequent capitulation. What lessons can Greece's experience teach those campaigning against austerity throughout Europe? This book includes an Appendix by Eric Toussaint.