The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Spain's New Left-Wing Socialist Government Offers Hope in Dark Political Times
In electing a socialist coalition, Spain is countering the politics of nationalism and populism that has been rising across Europe.
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"They are Millionaires, We are Millions!" - Nuit Debout Looks Ahead As Occupation Winds Down
Nuit Debout is, like Occupy, a manifestation of people who want to do things differently.
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“Yes We Can!" From Spain to Britain to America, a Revitalized Left Is Emerging
What began in Zuccotti Park and then spread across North America was a major contributor to the Bernie Sanders phenomenon that has forced leftwing ideas into the U.S. political conversation for the first time in decades.
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Spain to the Polls: Moving Away from Its Radical Platform, Podemos Has Lost Support
With national elections looming Sunday, descriptions of the party as the "best of a bad bunch" have become more common — especially among the country's vibrant citizen movements.
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Rebuilding the Commons: A Global Network of Rebel Cities Takes Shape, Part I
From Spain's grassroots city mayors to the Mexican Citizens' Movement, the worldwide network of rebel territories is continuing to grow.
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How Podemos Works: The Party Born from Spain's Indignados Holds Great Lessons for U.S.
Since it's the takeover of our democratic process by big money that makes most Americans angry, Podemos is a story from which Americans could take heart.
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Social Media and Movements: Is the Love Affair Really Over?
Social media are monitored and controlled by large corporations – so can they also facilitate the kind of self-organization that defines radical politics?
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Spain's Electoral Rebellion: Welcome to the Post-Party Political Era, Part II
If the M15-Indignados movement inaugurated a new social grammar in Spain, last month's municipal election victories created a new political ecosystem – signaling transformational shifts that have upended the old order.
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Spain's Electoral Rebellion: Welcome to the Post-Party Political Era, Part I
From Madrid and Barcelona to Zaragoza, A Coruña, Cádiz and other major Spanish cities, government is now in the hands of independent citizen fronts called “confluences” – revealing a seismic shakeup in European politics.
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Six Lessons for the U.S. from Spain’s Democratic Revolution
I traveled to Barcelona and Madrid last month to witness the historic elections firsthand, and to learn from Spain’s independent social movements – and what I saw was a whole new way of doing politics.
