The rebellion by Syriza hardliners, furious at what they see as a betrayal of the party's anti-austerity principles, left Tsipras short of the 120 votes – two-fifths of the 300-seat assembly – that Greek prime ministers need to show they command a majority and could survive a censure motion.
Lafazanis and other members of Syriza's far-left faction say they intend to start a new popular movement true to the anti-austerity principles that brought Syriza to power in January.
Yet in a climate of austerity, the principle may apply even to services that had been regarded as universal.
Correction 5 January 2015: This report has been amended to clarify the position of UKIP, which is against EU policy rather than against austerity in principle.
The cliches were flying on American media -- "countdown to shutdown" coming in # 1 -- but in fact this skirmish is a precursor to a fair fight over two huge, clashing principles: austerity vs. growth, deficits vs. women's health.
Jeremy is giving a different message - clearly many of them seem to like what he says about principle and austerity".
The conservative principle of austerity has bled into the 2012 Republican presidential campaign.
It took a decade for the full scale of the Latin American rage against the "Washington Consensus" to be felt in the form of electing a dozen national leaders dedicated to ending that failed neo-liberal regime (austerity was its first principle).
Social democracy is in crisis because it accepted the underlying principles of austerity, and therefore has little to say.
