Manolis Glezos

Veteran leftist and resistance fighter Manolis Glezos has died at the age of 98. 

He died of heart failure, according to reports.

An active opponent of Greece's resistance to the Nazis, Glezos is best known for tearing down the Nazi flag from the Acropolis in 1941 as occupying German forces conquered Athens. 

Veteran leftist politician Manolis Glezos was rushed to Athens' NIMTS hospital on Monday afternoon after suffering from intense shortness of breath and chest pains, Greek media reported.

This is the second time the 97-year-old second world war resistance fighter has been hospitalized in the past two months.

Speaking at a press conference in the framework of the 2015 Thessaloniki EXPO, leader of Popular Unity part, Panagiotis Lafazanis said the his former party SYRIZA had been forced to a ‘humiliating resignation’.

President of the Greek Parliament Zoe Konstantopouolou is in the final stages of creating her own political party, according to sources. The party will reportedly collaborate with the recently formed anti-memorandum formation ‘Popular Unity’ set up by former SYRIZA Minister and MP Panayiotis Lafazanis.

Greek MP from the main ruling party SYRIZA and alternate foreign minister for European affairs Nikos Hountis announced his resignation on Monday.

He is the first leftist MP to resign since Greece reached an agreement with eurozone leaders on a third bailout on Monday.

Several thousand demonstrators gathered in Brussels on Sunday and several hundred in Amsterdam to plead for solidarity with cash-strapped Greece on the eve of a make-or-break summit with European leaders.

Addressing the crowd in Amsterdam, veteran Greek MEP Manolis Glezos urged Athens' creditors to give the country «one more year» to resolve its debt crisis.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met on Saturday with the SYRIZA MEPs at Maximos Mansion, at 14.00 local time.

SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) is represented by six deputies in the European Parliament, namely Manolis Glezos, Sophia Sakorafa, Costas Chrisogonos, Dimitris Papadimoulis, Konstantina Kouneva and Stelios Kouloglou.

By Maria Petrakis

"A Day with Yanis Varoufakis," a satirical post doing the rounds on social media, shows the Greek finance minister spending his waking hours feted by adoring fans. He goes to sleep and is jolted awake by a nightmare of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble cackling.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with composer and political activist Mikis Theodorakis (photo) in Athens on Tuesday in the wake of the latter?s comments on Sunday urging the leftist leader to turn down austerity demands by the country?s foreign lenders.

Manolis Glezos, 92-year-old Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) party MEP, accused the government of "renaming fish as meat" in an interview in the Financial Times, titled "Greece scrambles to meet deadline as dissent stirs within the ruling party."