The future of democracy depends on developing a left-wing populism that can revive public interest by mobilising political passions in the fight for an alternative to neoliberal de-democratisation.
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Proposed labour reforms in France have sparked mass protests led by young people who want to reclaim democracy from the elite.
More than two months after the election, Spanish politicians still can’t provide the people with the government they demanded.
Parliamentarians have again failed to form a coalition, nearly three months after the election.
Spain’s most controversial sport has been in strife lately. But anthropologist Robin Irvine explains why a year working on a bull-breeding estate made him optimistic for its future.
Spain’s two-party system is now consigned to the history books – but forming a functional government will be anything but easy.
Spain’s era of two-party government is coming to an end – but what exactly happens next is far from clear.
Catalonia’s pro-independence parties now have the chance to assemble a parliamentary majority, but they’ll have to overcome their own differences first.
Denied a chance to hold a referendum, the pro-independence movement are calling the region’s parliamentary elections a plebiscite.
As the Labour Left’s fourth choice of candidate prepares to take the party reins, he may have taken the lead from Scotland’s Yes campaign and ushered in a new age in UK politics.
One thing is clear: if you need bailing out, your voters no longer matter.
Candidates from Spain’s ‘15M’ movement – born of mass protests in 2011 – have responded in various ways to the dilemma that being elected creates for those wishing to overturn the ‘old politics’.
With plans to shake up democracy, it’s no wonder the HDP is being compared to Syriza and Podemos.
With a steady hollowing out of membership, the cosying up to vested interests with pockets deep enough to maintain party, today’s political parties barely “represent”.
The rise of left-wing populism challenges those who flatly denounced right-wing populism as undemocratic. Populism can appear as a democratic force in some contexts and anti-democratic in others.
The Greens have nothing on Syriza or Podemos.
Will Spain’s general election really be an anti-austerity wave – or something much more messy?
The victory of the radically left Syriza in the Greek election is a historical moment for the country. It is the first time since the modern Greek state was founded in 1832 that a left-wing party will…
The more radical left-wing fringes of British politics can seem a strange and alien world. Meetings in dingy rooms where comrades cite Lenin and Trotsky during long excurses on the “objective conditions…
Catalans have voted for independence in a referendum that holds no official sway but has enormous significance. Now Catalonia needs to decide where to turn next. The referendum, held on November 9, was…
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