What Alexis Tsipras can learn from the sprawling history of the European left
Alexis Tsipras is about to face the favourite insult of the left since first the concept of left and right in politics was invented in the French revolution. He is going to be called a traitor. He might even given the ultimate Greek insult by his opponents and called Ephialtes – the man who sold the pass to the Persians at Thermopylae and allowed Xeres to destroy the 300 Spartans and march on Athens.