Tonight we honour the Greek electorate and their courageous government for having given us a very rare example of economic democracy. Yes, let the people themselves decide how much austerity they can bear: does this idea seem just too much for most of the financial markets to accept? With today’s vote in Greece, have we at last crossed the Rubicon to allow the demos, our fellow citizens, to design an economy and financial system that…
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Refashioning politics from below: Notes from the frontline
As the Syriza government in Greece shows that the new emerging politics requires constant creativity in seeking to change the rules of the economic game, developments in Spain as it faces into a crucial electoral cycle also hold fascinating lessons. A new opinion poll in El País today shows support divided remarkably evenly between four parties, indicating just how much has changed in Spanish politics over the past year. Podemos, founded at the beginning of…