This year Greece is completing six years of recession and four years of Memorandum leveling. The economic and social destruction that has been accomplished is unprecedented in the country's history, in peacetime.

Kostas Lapavitsas analytically examines the causes of the crisis, the trap of the eurozone, and the need to exit from it. He highlights the failure of the Memorandum policies and formulates radical proposals to avoid destruction and promote development with social change.
The texts of the book contribute substantially to win the decisive battle for the course of Greece, as well as Europe, in favor of the popular strata. As the author argues, a necessary precondition for this is the formation of a coherent plan to exit the crisis and the revival of the European Left.

The texts included are:

Introduction

CRISIS OF THE EUROZONE
- Real and immediate danger of bankruptcy
- The trap of the eurozone
- What does Mrs. Merkel seek?
- Debt, the euro, and the positions of the Left

TO AVOID DESTRUCTION
- Suspension of payments and exit from the eurozone
- The country is heading towards self-destruction
- International committee to control Greek debt

EXIT FROM THE EURO
- Here are our negotiating advantages
- European mechanism to safeguard banks and German dominance
- Greece must default and abandon the euro. The real issue for discussion is how
- It is in Greece's interest to leave the euro

FAILURE OF THE MEMORANDUMS
- Mrs. Merkel made things clear
- Virtual reality and bitter truth
- For a radical solution to the crisis
- Greece does not need another "rescue" package. It needs an exit

PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT
- Everything must change so that nothing changes
- Undermining the Greek productive fabric
- Development with social change
- "Heroic exits" and "small baskets". What to do with the euro

THE CASE OF CYPRUS AND THE EUROPEAN TURN
- The choice given to the Cypriot government is unacceptable and destructive
- The failures of policy indecision in Cyprus
- German austerity plans will turn Europe into a beggar
- The revival of the European Left
- The French deadlock

THE RADICAL TODAY
- Lessons of Political Economy in the first person
- The apostles of "austerity"
- Stories with debts
- Does SYRIZA want and can it default?