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An excerpt from "The Transformative Effects of Crisis: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the New Economic Cultures in Spain and Greece" by Janosch Sbeih 
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"The most realistic option is to combine electoral democracy with new forms of deliberative and participative democracy".
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podThe long read: Just 15 months after it was founded, Podemos now leads the polls in Spain. Can this grassroots party win power – or is its bubble about to burst?
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For the first time in decades, a grassroots organisation in Spain has the potential to unseat the country’s major political parties. Could this herald the beginning of a Europe-wide political revolution?
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Watch a recent address by Spain's Podemos Secretary General Pablo Iglesias, a political science professor and activist who could become the country's next prime minister if his anti-austerity party wins the national elections later this year.
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To celebrate his 36th birthday last weekend, Pablo Iglesias declared war on the Spanish establishment. “Heaven is not taken by consensus,” the de facto leader of Podemos declaimed to a raucous reception in Madrid’s Palacio Vistalegre bullring, “it is taken by assault”.
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Whatever happened to the 15-M Movement? Where did Occupy go? Three years after the groundbreaking revolutionary ruptures of 2011, violent repression and media invisibility have relegated these thriving movements to a grey area. The perception seems to shift between mainstream derision and niche-group interest. Occupy’s roots have spread out and sprouted a multitude of initiatives, though perhaps the source inspiration is not always publicly recognized. But in Spain, the popular experience of austerity – the murderous palliative prescribed as a cure for the crisis – and the resulting political movements in reaction have been giving the lie to the mainstream narrative that 15-M is a “has been”.
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Matt Wells meets Sister Teresa Forcades, a Catalan nun who has become one of Spain's most recognisable anti-capitalist campaigners.
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* M.A. Thesis: The Transformative Effects of Crisis: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the New Economic Cultures in Spain and Greece. Janosch Sbeih.
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At municipal elections, grassroots politicians are gaining support with pledges to fight corruption and austerity.
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Regional parliamentary election weakens Spain’s two-party system in Podemos’s first test since ally Syriza won Greek elections
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Excerpted from Andrew Dolan in Red Pepper, and based on a interview of Eduardo Maura, international representative of Podemos: “In describing this phenomenon Maura speaks of the ‘hacker logic’ that from the outset structured Podemos’s approach to...
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Madrid, Spain - Beer and snacks are served at a makeshift bar in a small civic centre in Madrid's Carabanchel district. About 50 people have gathered on a Friday evening, and with the children of some playing noisily downstairs, it might seem at first glance to be a group of friends socialising.
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Podemos is the world’s first Reddit party. Debates and online votes will shape the party as it stands for election in 2015.
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‘If representative democracy is only to choose every four, or five, or six years the person who’s going to do everything they want without taking popular will into account... we are in a sort of trap and I think that’s certainly the case today for Europe and elsewhere.’
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A political party named Equo has just been born in Spain. Their proposals include green economic initiatives, socially focused and permeable decision making processes and horizontally structured political hierarchies.
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