Podemos came from the streets, social media platforms and out of a horizontal ideology not found in the traditional parties.
Podemos was poised to win this year’s elections. This was a dangerous situation and the system needed stabilizing. Hence, the launching of a firewall operation through Ciudadanos. Español.
Con un Partido Popular muy debilitado, y con los Socialistas en plena travesía del desierto, Podemos estaba ya preparando su victoria para las elecciones este año. La situación revestía peligro y había que estabilizar el sistema. De ahí que se lanzara una operación cortafuegos. English
Ciudadanos have been portrayed by the media as the 'Podemos of the right'. However, an analysis of the party and its policies reveal this is far from the case.
Putting people, and not a combination of businesses, technology and national identity, at the centre of the political debate, seems to be a first step in the right direction. Except it will not be enough. Español.
Los ciudadanos de Barcelona están dejando a un lado el histórico bagaje de las luchas del movimiento obrero de los siglos XIX y XX e inventando un nuevo lenguaje de derechos y democracia. Publicado previamente en Can Europe Make It. English.
Situar a las personas, y no una combinación de turismo, negocios y tecnología, en el centro del debate político puede ser un primer paso en la buena dirección. Pero no será suficiente. Publicado previamente en Can Europe Make It. English
Looking forward from the Andalusian test, the Spanish party system has been transformed. What used to be effectively a two-party system is now a four-party system.
Although Podemos are unlikely to win an outright majority in the general election, they have galvanised the opposition to the conservative government, while simultaneously challenging the parties of the old left.
Barcelona's citizens are setting aside the historical baggage of the nineteenth and twentieth century struggles of industrial workers movements, inventing a newly resonant language of rights and democracy. Español.
On March 19, hundreds of thousands of Basque citizens will participate in an initiative that passes a baton from hand to hand without interruption; the same baton that has become a symbol of the Basque language itself.
Never before has it become so clear that we live in societies that are politically democratic but socially fascist. The Podemos wave is a metaphor for every single attempt to find a progressive solution.
