The distinguished French economist Frédéric Lordon deals with the drama of the Greek people under the memorandum yoke imposed on them by the existing German Europe.

The focus falls on the climax of this drama in the year of great collective hope and great collective disappointment, 2015. With his emotionally detached perspective, he offers the Greek reader a first chronicle of this critical period, to which, without a doubt, future historians will refer again and again.

Syriza collapsed. Its strategic timidity and its refusal to confront the rupture sealed its failure. It is time for all those who embraced the chimera of an "alternative euro" to realize that there is no possibility of a real progressive transformation.

The Greek tragedy reveals that financial capital has declared a merciless war on the peoples of Europe. As American academic Michael Hudson argues, "Today's Greece resembles in many ways the bombed Spain in Picasso's famous painting (Guernica). This is the IMF's version of the bombing of Spain by the Nazis, this is the message to the workers of Europe to submit."