Rebel Left Platform leader Lafazanis sticks to hardline stance in 'Real News' interview

"If the government becomes irretrievably identified with new and old memorandums and the policies that implement these, it will find itself opposed not just by me but by the great majority in SYRIZA, almost all the democratic, progressive people of the Left," he said.

Lafazanis said that he supports the government to implement the 'radical programme' on which SYRIZA was elected and respond to the result of the referendum, but not to sign and implement new memorandums.

"My own position and insistence from the start was to promptly prepare Greece, first of all politically, for all outcomes - even for that of an exit from the eurozone, if it was met with a 'wall' and demands for capitulation," he said.

In an interview with 'Free Sunday', meanwhile, Lafazanis also noted that the Left Platform was the initiator of SYRIZA as a unifying force of the Left and supported SYRIZA at a time when others, many of which were not fanatical supporters of the memorandum, were trying to break it up.

He also disputed that an exit from the euro would be disastrous, noting that with the right progressive policies a national currency could help increase domestic production and employment.