The Alexis Tsipras Institute has started a new team. This group will write a clear paper about political principles and directions. The paper will show a new shared program and value base.

Talk about bringing together social democracy, political ecology, and radical democratic left started in Europe in the first decade of the 21st century. In Greece, this needed mixing of ideas and political currents has been delayed a lot.

Today, with many social, economic, environmental, and democratic challenges, bottom-up dialogue for a new program and value mix is more timely than ever. To help this process, the Alexis Tsipras Institute is forming a Working Group. This team will try to enrich theoretical thought and advance the shared problem-solving of the three currents.

“Our central goal is the collective renewal of political speech and the shaping of a coherent framework of principles and directions, that will defend what we own jointly, forming a convincing alternative to the dominance of neoliberalism,” the Institute said.

In this frame, the Group will work to shape a coherent text of political principles and directions. This text will show the new shared program and value starting point. This way, it hopes to help shape a renewed yet coherent political sign with duration and prospect.

The team includes:
Giorgos Siakantaris, sociology doctor and writer
Nikos Alatas, international relations expert and political scientist
Polymeris Voglis, social history professor at University of Thessaly
Dora Kotsaka, political scientist and deputy coordinator at INAT
Fani Kountouri, associate professor of political communication at Panteion University
Nikos Marantzidis, political science professor at University of Macedonia
Ioanna Naoum, associate professor of comparative literature at Aristotle University
Nikos Raptis, businessman and educator
Foteini Sianou, trade unionist and feminist, former president of the Women’s Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation
Aris Stylianou, political philosophy professor at Aristotle University
Vasilis Tsaousidis, professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Democritus University
Thodoros Tsekos, emeritus professor of public administration at University of Peloponnese
Lampros Flitouris, associate professor of European history at University of Ioannina