
Greece on the Brink
Seven years into recession, Greece has become the sharpest edge of Europe's economic crisis and, in the filmmakers' view, the sharpest edge of the backlash against it. A small crew from the International Marxist Tendency travels the country with a hand-held camera, visiting the newspaper cooperative Efimerida ton Syntakton and the occupied former state broadcaster ERT, which its workers now run themselves. Interviews range from laid-off workers and pensioners to members of Golden Dawn, tracking how austerity imposed by the EU, ECB, and IMF has fed both the rise of SYRIZA as the main opposition and a resurgent far right. To place Greece in a wider frame, the team sits down with Marxist theorist Alan Woods in London and, in Italy, with Claudio Bellotti, who argues for canceling the debt outright. The film does not pretend to neutrality: it builds a case that the crisis is capitalism working as designed, and that the only way out is replacing it, not managing it better.