Podemos, Can They?
On this week’s show James Butler and Aaron Bastani discuss the rise of Podemos, the new party on Spain’s radical left.
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Novara Wire editor Craig McVegas looks through some of the hottest articles published on Wire this past month. Topics include: Irish Water, the NUS and the rise of Podemos in Spain.
View ArticleRewrite or Escape the EU? Two Strategies from Southern Europe
Last Sunday, Spain’s national elections altered its political landscape, ending the two-neoliberal-party state. The new anti-austerity party Podemos ran for the first time. But with the rise of another...
View ArticleCatalan Independence: 4 Notes on a House of Mirrors
On Saturday afternoon, Catalonia had its habemus papum, white smoke moment when pro-independence parties struck a deal to invest the relatively unknown mayor of Girona, Carles Puigdemont, as president...
View Article3 Things You Need to Know About Spain’s New Far-Left Electoral Pact
After Spain’s December elections delivered an inconclusive result, months of sterile negotiations have met a dead end: parliament has been dissolved and re-elections have been called for late June. The...
View Article15M: 5 Years On, What Has Changed?
Since 2011, politics has become something that belongs to all citizens. Until then, it was something reserved for parliament and the political parties. The rest of civil society simply participated in...
View ArticlePodemos in Power?
On this week’s show Aaron Bastani is joined by Michael Walker and Marina Prentoulis as they discuss the forthcoming Spanish general election.
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4 Reflections on Podemos and the Spanish Elections
The European left can’t catch a break. There is more sad news from Spain. After the December 2015 elections shattered the traditional two-party system, and six months of failed negotiations detonated a...
View ArticleThe Problems of Podemos
The Spanish elections on Sunday 26th June brought disappointing results. Unidos Podemos has received a serious and unexpected check on their predicted rise to the party of opposition. The problems for...
View ArticleKeep Corbyn: 5 Questions Answered for New Members of the Labour Party
60,000 people are said to have joined the Labour Party in the past week. Despite his isolation within the Parliamentary Labour Party, leader Jeremy Corbyn’s support remains strong among members and...
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What on Earth Is Going on in Spain? 4 Things You Need to Know
Just when it seemed Spanish politics was getting boring, its main opposition party implodes. PSOE, the 137 year old social democratic party, has descended into internal warfare and political analysts...
View ArticlePodemos 2.0: Towards a Party-Movement?
Since the December 2015 general election, the political situation in Spain has been stalemated. The major parties’ inability to form a new government in December led to a repeat election in June 2016,...
View ArticlePodemos Congress: Is Pablo Iglesias About to Be Dethroned?
As Podemos descends into infighting there is a chance that its leader, Pablo Iglesias, will be dethroned at the party’s upcoming congress in Vistalegre. After accomplishing stellar results in the...
View Article4 Reflections on Left Populism
A recent #NovaraIRL considered possibilities for a radical left populism, and touched on crucial debates around strategy, historical trajectories and social analysis. Below are some of the central...
View ArticlePablo’s Party
On TyskySour Michael and Aaron are joined by Javier Moreno Zacarés to analyse the result of Podemos’ recent party conference, Vista Alegre II. (NB: due to a deviant SD card, this episode is being...
View ArticleThe Mask and the Flag: Populism and Protest
James Butler is joined by Paolo Gerbaudo to discuss Paolo’s new book ‘The Mask and the Flag: Populism, Citizenism and Global Protest’, and the strategic questions populist movements pose for the...
View Article15M: 5 Years On, What Has Changed?
Since 2011, politics has become something that belongs to all citizens. Until then, it was something reserved for parliament and the political parties. The rest of civil society simply participated in...
View ArticlePodemos’s Divisions Are Finally Coming to a Head
Last week, the Spanish left was rocked by news of a split in Podemos. Íñigo Errejón, co-founder and strategist behind the organisation’s spectacular rise in 2015, announced he will be running for the...
View ArticleLog On! the Rise of the Digital Party
On #NovaraFM James Butler is joined by Paolo Gerbaudo to discuss his new book ‘The Digital Party’: from hyperleaders to superbases, the end of the cadre and the effect of the internet on how people...
View ArticleSpanish General Election: Another Step Forward for the Far Right?
In the 2016 Spanish general election, the big question was whether Unidos Podemos – the electoral alliance led by Podemos and United Left – would overcome the Socialist party (PSOE). It didn’t. Just...
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