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It’s all Greek to them

Pasok, a struggling centre-left party from Greece, is surprisingly prominent in the minds of Labour activists. Where once the Greek party commanded the support of 44% of voters, a stint in government overseeing brutal spending cuts saw this figure dribble to 5% by 2015. Naturally, Labour wants to avoid this fate, dubbed Pasokification.
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It was another Greek party that Mr Corbyn’s supporters wanted to emulate. Syriza, the radical left-wing party with a charismatic leader, Alexis Tsipras, promised to roll back austerity in the Aegean, while successfully navigating complicated bail-out negotiations in Brussels. Across Europe, centre-left parties had gone the way of Pasok, with voters deserting them, often for the far-right. For Corbynistas, Syriza provided a rare blueprint for a successful left-wing party when it was elected in 2015.

Three years on, however, Syriza now serves as another warning to some on the left. The parable of Mr Tsipras’s eventual capitulation—his radical government brought to heel by capital markets and an intransigent European Union—is seeping into the left’s consciousness. Support for the Syriza government has dwindled in Greece.

Now some Labour activists wonder if, in office, it could fall victim to Syrizification. ...