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In Spain, the government’s economic austerity policies have contributed to an unemployment rate of 23 percent, mass home foreclosures and evictions and a deep distrust of an entrenched political class. It has also inspired the rise of a new generation of leftist politicians who are shaking up Spain’s political landscape. 
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Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
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Spain: Can Citizens save the right?
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Podemos want to pick up where Syriza started. But it’s unclear if they can fulfil their utopian promise
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Truly radical change will only come when radical parties accept that they need to give power back to the people - not as a slogan but as a democratic process.
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Podemos, the recently formed anti-austerity and anti-elite group, with a tiny campaign budget, won more than 1m votes in Spain
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What Podemos’s present success reveals is the breakdown, the crisis or the collapse (choose the term you prefer) of the Spanish party system. Because in reality the Transition regime is sinking like the Titanic and Podemos is merely the iceberg that caused this. So as soon as the cock crowed on 25-M, all the captains aboard began to jump ship: firstly [PSOE leader] Rubalcaba, then the King, later [the Catalan conservative] Durán, … It is a regime crisis because its previous dominant coalition, until now formed by an imperfect three-party set (PSOE, PP and [regional nationalists]), has lost the ability to impose its cultural hegemony.
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The rise of Podemos has taken support away from PSOE, the Socialist Party, which has lost 7.5% in the polls. It has also won a significant slice of voters fromIzquierda Unida, the United Left, whose support has fallen three points to around 8%. Fortunately, Podemos has indicated that they are willing to discuss with the United Left in order to create a united front. Such a non-sectarian response can only help to strengthen the Left alternative. This radical alternative is also mirrored in Catalonia where the left wing Catalan nationalist group Ezquerra Republicana (Republican Left) appear to be improving its position in comparison to its more right-wing Catalan party rival in the run up to the independence vote proposed for this November.
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Podemos has grown out of the indignado movement that in May 2011exploded against austerity and for “real democracy”. This was driven by occupations of town squares and mass citizen assemblies, providing a striking counter-point to the Spanish state’s bureaucratic and frequently corrupt “politics as usual”. ANOVA in Galicia and the Catalan left-nationalist Popular Unity Candidacies (CUP) were forerunners of Podemos as forces organising political representation “from below”.
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