This week has been a taste of what the economy would look like with a real rupture with the eurozone: uncertainty, elite blackmail, banks teetering on the brink, and the start of rationing.

That the mobilization of Syriza and the Left outside it has overcome this and made Oxi (No) a possibility is impressive. Greece and its economy can expect no miracles either way today’s vote goes and for quite some time afterwards, but they deserve full international solidarity.

And so as Greeks go to the polls, with the streets of Athens still buzzing from Friday night’s enormous Oxi!/No! rally in Syntagma Square, I’ve collected and parsed some of my notes on Greece from afar. A text on where things stand is first, followed by some notes on how things came to be.