> I see news commentators calling Syriza "far left" - they are not far left, they are just socialists.
They do have a fairly strong far-left faction, which perhaps contributes to some of that perception. However I agree the party as such isn't, particularly the leadership that is actually in control of the party. Tsipras and his allies have fairly effectively sidelined the leftist faction over the past few years, in an attempt to turn the party into an electoral force that could win. The faction around Tsipras is inclined more towards a kind of pragmatic populist socialism, not a more hardline ideological leftism (Varoufakis is de facto in the Tsipras faction too, although I believe he's formally not even a member of Syriza).
They do have a fairly strong far-left faction, which perhaps contributes to some of that perception. However I agree the party as such isn't, particularly the leadership that is actually in control of the party. Tsipras and his allies have fairly effectively sidelined the leftist faction over the past few years, in an attempt to turn the party into an electoral force that could win. The faction around Tsipras is inclined more towards a kind of pragmatic populist socialism, not a more hardline ideological leftism (Varoufakis is de facto in the Tsipras faction too, although I believe he's formally not even a member of Syriza).