The stage was set for Spain’s anti-austerity party to make a major breakthrough on Sunday. And yet its leaders misjudged the public and it suffered a severe setback
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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From Spain to the UK, traditional leftwing parties are in decline.
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"No democracy" inside the euro: "If you vote for what you want, the EU will crush you".
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If they are not going to win anyway,
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There is no way of concealing the
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This week’s Spanish elections will be a major test, but the leftist party has already proved it can capture the popular imagination without snatching the centre ground. Does Iglesias’s brand of radicalism provide a blueprint for the Labour leader?
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Ever since the financial crash, the left has struggled to articulate a future for Europe that takes into account the needs of all its citizens. But this year, two anti-austerity movements with very different styles have shot to prominence and to popularity - Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain. Does Syriza's election victory augur well for Podemos in a Spanish vote later this year? Does Syriza's difficulties in office signal dangers ahead for leftists who manage to win power? How can the European left roll back austerity?
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Running for office means engaging in an operation that is
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X-net's Simona Levi corrects some popular misconceptions resulting from international press coverage on the role of Podemos.
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Anti-eviction activist and Barcelona en Comú candidate Ada Colau will be the next mayor of Barcelona. (VozPopuli)
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What the Spanish media ignore about this new generation of activist-politicians is why they became famous enough to put on a ballot in the first place: their roots in prominent local struggles and their willingness to spearhead radical democratic participation.
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The status quo took a hit in Spanish elections over the weekend. A major upset came in Barcelona with a win by Ada Colau, a prominent activist who fought evictions during Spain's economic crisis.
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Protest parties make gains in Spain's local elections, depriving the governing People's Party of overall control of Madrid and other councils.
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Spain’s Podemos leftist party printed its program as an Ikea catalog so voters will actually read it
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Hoping to get the program in the hands of people less interested in politics, the party designed and printed a 192-page catalog featuring its candidates in Ikea-like settings, albeit offering political issues—from financial regulations to increase in pensions to renewable energies—instead of affordable design.
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Who is going to win on June 26? Are minority parties in with a chance?
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The duty of a revolutionary is not simply to
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Podemos’ errors have included understanding their local committees (the celebrated circulos), along with the municipalist initiatives, as mere generators of demands, not as places for collective construction and political creativity. Español.
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The country’s political convulsions and the rise of Podemos show that the fight against austerity did not die with Syriza in Greece
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We sat down with Francisco Jurado, 15M activist and currently a member of Podemos, to discuss the evolution of Spain’s radical democratic initiatives.
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Political leadership lies at the heart of
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You wouldn't believe the terrible things that would happen if Podemos won the elections...
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Twelve months ago she was a housing activist. Now Ada Colau, newly sworn-in as Barcelona’s top elected offical, has inequality in her sights
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Carlos Delclós writes about new generation of activist-politicians advancing the municipal agenda in Spain.
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Ada Colau an activist against housing evictions "evicts" usual politicians from Barcelona city hall.
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Anti-poverty activist Ada Colau elected as mayor of Barcelona, while battle for control of capital pits countess against former communist
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