Paul Mason chronicled Syriza’s rise as an enthusiastic populist partisan

Evidence

Over seven years ago, in the sweltering summer of 2015, British journalist Paul Mason found himself in a state of uncontrollable excitement. He was standing in the middle of Athens’s Syntagma Square, surrounded by thousands of Greek protesters chanting songs and slogans from the country’s fight against the dictatorship in the 1970s. Up on stage he could see the Syriza head and Greek president, Alexis Tsipras, leader of a six-month-old government now mired in a protracted battle with European authorities. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 10

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader literature on the left-populism era of the 2010s and journalist-activist entanglements.