PSOE
Josh Kitto / 29 Jan 2020
Rebuilding the Labour Party
The Search for Intelligent Life
X left defeated by x far-right. It doesn’t matter where it is. It always happens, in every country.
It happens so regularly, in fact, you’d think it was preprogrammed. Conspiracy theory, anyone?(...)
Maxime Sattonnay / 09 Dec 2019
Changing the Debate on Immigration
The Berta Barbet Porta Interview, Part II
It ranks as high as class. Few issues have become as common to politics as migration. Whether it be the United States, the EU or Russia, we live in an era in which foreigners are as much a source of social anxiety as the poor.(...)
Maxime Sattonnay / 02 Dec 2019
The Problem With Vox
The Berta Barbet Porta Interview
Spain was thought to be safe. Despite the persistence of Partido Popular governments since 2011, over the last few years, the party to watch was the leftist Podemos. An anti-austerity movement that emerged following the 2008 financial crisis, Unidas Podemos, as it renamed itself, managed to stick to its guns where other progressive parties of its generation, such as Greece's Syriza, did not.(...)
John Foster / 27 Sep 2019
Keeping It Real
Podemos and the European Left
In a development that is very much emblematic of the state of politics in Europe, Spain is spiralling toward another round of elections to be held in the second week of November. (...)
John Foster / 03 May 2019
Democracy in the Era of Populism
Chantal Mouffe and the Spanish Election
With the results of the snap elections held in Spain on Sunday still in the headlines, new questions have been raised about the so-called “populist moment” about which so much ink has been spilt of late.(...)