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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe populist moment
The 'demos', the sovereign people, has been declared a 'zombie' category and this is why we now live in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s ousted opposition leader reveals where the real power lies: with the country’s oligarchs
Spain's deposed Socialist leader, Pedro Sánchez, revealed that banks and newspapers secretly pressured him not to do...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Back to basics: why Podemos lost support in the last Spanish election
PP and PSOE have an advantage. They are tied to the history of the country, and there is a popular imagination...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What kind of hope is a promise?
“If progressives focus too much on the institutional sphere, the right wing can take the streets – they’ve done it...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaLatin American conquest of the state
A conversation between the political strategist of Podemos and a theoretical referent of the postmarxist left shows...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe 'Podemos wave' as a global hope
Podemos’ bursting into Spain’s parliament is a breath of fresh air for the Left, and for the global movements...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s December 20 General Elections: start of a new historical cycle
Being able to foster ‘real’ change in favour of the oppressed while, at the same time, responding to their need for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Smile again
For those disappointed with the prospects offered to us by the supposed ‘crisis of capitalism’, Podemos represents...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Podemos: radical blueprint for democratic reform
Iglesias' party proposes a radical opening up of the state through citizen participation in decision-making, and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Podemos in the debate of the ‘Left(s)’: elections and aspirations for change at the ‘End of History’
Podemos has not given up on being part of the left, it has simply renounced being part of this left that can be...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?On the decaffeination of Podemos as an anti-Establishment force
There is no way of concealing the increasingly open contradiction that exists between Podemos’s ‘upper echelons’...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Intervention at Forum Europa: “Politics should have an ethical basis and be humanistic”
“There is no place for me to speak. And that’s because you have everything tightly controlled. The media is in the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Political communication, social transformation and democratic alternatives: critique of the Podemos experiment
To mortgage all political communication to media is a mistaken deal, from a perspective informed by the political...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Podemos: the schizophrenic road from public squares to the institutions
If they are not going to win anyway, as seems to be the case, would it not have been better to compromise less and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reversing the inverted pyramid: a brief genealogy of Podemos’ origins and development
The duty of a revolutionary is not simply to win, but to forge the transformation of society, beginning from an...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Podemos: instrument, work, subject. Aphorisms
Podemos, rather than being a prosthesis for the 15-M multitude, should be conceived as a weapon it needed to be able...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Run Run versus Tick-Tock
In only one year and a few months of existence, Podemos has successfully obliged all the pre-existing parties to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?An assault to the skies: the municipalist movement's affair with Podemos
Podemos mistook their local committees (the celebrated circulos), along with the municipalist initiatives, for mere...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“Our situation is Quixotic and Machiavellian”: an interview with Podemos’ Jorge Moruno
It takes a lot to get very little, but there is no other option… we must open a new way, without the means to do so....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?TalkReal in Madrid: new Spanish politics
Citizen coalitions have been in power for six months in Madrid, Barcelona, and many more cities in Spain. What are...