And after everybody else (from the left all the way to the far-right) has ...shared their thoughts on Tsipras’s new party, let me offer mine. My arguments and points are mainly reflect to what I’ve read online - since I live abroad – while reminding older readers that I was truly angry when he turned the 'No' of the referendum into a 'Yes'.
There is something deeply revealing about panic especially in politics. Panic exposes fear and fear exposes truth and the absolute hysteria surrounding the political return of Alexis Tsipras says a lot about the current Greek political and social establishment. Before he even properly spoke, before the programme was fully presented, before the first political battle had even begun, the corrupt machinery of power exploded into coordinated rage. The government, the bought media networks, the anonymous internet sewer trolls, the professional propagandists like the infamous “Squad of Truth” and the political parasites all began screaming in unison. Not because they are confident. Not because they are strong. But because they are terrified.
Terrified that the man they buried politically may have learned from his mistakes.
Alexis Tsipras made mistakes as Prime Minister. Serious ones. Some came from inexperience. Some came from naïve romanticism. Some came from believing that institutions in Greece still contained a minimum level of democratic decency. They did not. Tsipras underestimated the depth of rot inside the Greek political, judicial, media and economic system. A rot and a naiveté that reached even his closest cycles. He entered government believing he could negotiate with wolves using logic and good faith. Instead, he encountered oligarchs, corrupt dynasties, Brussels technocrats, media mafias and political vultures who had spent decades feeding on the corpse of the Greek people.
That was his greatest mistake and we all know or sense it.
Not ideology. Not ambition. Not even the compromises of 2015. His mistake was believing that Greece functioned like a normal democracy. It does not.
Modern Greece remains trapped inside a toxic alliance between inherited political families, corrupted business interests, compromised media empires and a state mechanism that protects itself before it protects citizens. And nobody represents this rotten ecosystem now better than Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his government. A government drowning in scandals, surveillance accusations, institutional decay, cover-ups, public money distribution to friendly media, nepotism and shameless arrogance.
The same people who lecture society about “stability” are the same people who transformed corruption into state doctrine.
And suddenly Tsipras returns.
Not the impulsive young opposition firebrand of 2015. Not the romantic revolutionary speaking in slogans and emotion. But a far colder, sharper and politically mature figure. One who appears to understand exactly what he is dealing with this time.
That is why they are panicking.
Because experience is dangerous when combined with political instinct.
The symbolism of the new movement is not accidental either. The new party name, the renewed manifesto and especially the logo are all carefully designed political weapons. Simple people may see graphics and branding. But symbols matter in politics because symbols communicate psychological warfare. The logo itself carries multiple messages: renewal without surrender, patriotism without nationalism, resistance without ideological extremism and perhaps most importantly, continuity without becoming hostage to the failures of the past.
The establishment understood those messages immediately.
Which explains the absurd level of hatred directed even toward the logo itself. Think about that for a moment. A logo. A symbol. A colour scheme. They attacked it with fury, lies, fabricated stories and coordinated ridicule before most people even understood its meaning. That is not normal political criticism. That is fear management. That is the behaviour of a system trying desperately to stop momentum before momentum becomes movement.
Because the Greek establishment remembers something very clearly: Tsipras once came dangerously close to breaking their monopoly.
And despite everything, millions of Greeks still remember another truth: whatever his failures, Tsipras never looked or acted like a thief.
That matters in Greece today.
In a country exhausted by arrogance, exhausted by political dynasties, exhausted by oligarchic control and exhausted by institutional hypocrisy, authenticity becomes dangerous. Tsipras still carries something rare in Greek politics, the image of a politician who actually believes what he says even when he fails. Compare that with the mechanical cynicism of Mitsotakis-style politics, where every sentence sounds like it was produced by a public relations laboratory financed by contractors and media owners.
The political system preferred Tsipras inexperienced. They preferred him emotional. They preferred him isolated. What they fear now is a Tsipras who understands power, understands manipulation, understands institutional sabotage and understands how vicious the Greek establishment truly is.
The attacks will intensify. The propaganda will become uglier. More fake stories will appear. More “anonymous leaks.” More coordinated television outrage. More internet filth pretending to be spontaneous public opinion. More “Squad of Truth” mud. Because the establishment media no longer informs; it operates as political enforcement.
But there is another reason for the panic.
The Mitsotakis government knows that beneath the illusion of stability lies enormous public anger. Greeks are financially exhausted, socially humiliated and politically cynical. Housing is collapsing, wages remain insulting, young people flee abroad, public trust is destroyed and corruption has become normalised. The government survives largely through media control, fear campaigns and the absence of a serious unified alternative.
Tsipras is attempting to become that alternative again.
Will he succeed? Nobody knows.
But one thing is already obvious: the system fears him enough to launch war before the battle even begins.
And in politics, fear is often the first sign that change may actually be possible.
