"Leftist activists are having an increasingly hard time trying to defend Syriza."
Not my understanding of the situation
He has two alternative - Pay up and put the screws on the poor or refuse to pay and seek to renegotiate.
To his credit, he has chosen the latter and put it to a referendum (isn't describing this as a "betrayal" offensive? It is to me)   
"Instead of the referendum, new elections are needed as soon as possible."
So they allow the E.U. to decide who leads Greece?
As I said earlier, I always believed this was what the E.U. was about.
Having made our positions clear. let's leave it there - you support the E.U. and the bankers, I'll stick with a government which appears to be doing what it was elected to do.
I assume your refusal to comment on the morality of an impoverished nation being forced to pay debts to be paid to two richer ones, is on the grounds it may incriminate you
Bye
Jim Carroll