Left Populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos - Softcover

Prentoulis, Marina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745337635 ISBN 13: 9780745337630

Verlag: Pluto Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

This book evaluates the transformational process of left populism across grassroots, national and European levels and asks what we can do to harness the power of broad-based, popular left politics. While the right is using populist rhetoric to great effect, the left's attempts have been much less successful. Syriza in Greece and Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in Britain have both failed to introduce socialism in their countries, while Podemos has had better fortune in Spain and is now in government with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Bringing a wealth of experience in political organising, Marina Prentoulis argues that left populism is a political logic that brings together isolated demands against a common enemy. She looks at how egalitarian pluralism could transform economic and political institutions in a radical, democratic direction. But each party does this differently, and the key to understanding where to go from here lies in a serious analysis of the roots of each movement's base, the forms of party organisation, and the particular national contexts. This book is a clear and holistic approach to left populism that will inform anyone wanting to understand and move forward positively in a bleak time for the left in Europe.

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Marina Prentoulis is Senior Lecturer in Media and Politics at the University of East Anglia. She has been the UK spokesperson of Syriza and has given numerous interviews on British and international media including BBC’s Newsnight, the Andrew Marr Show as well as CNN and Sky News.
 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0745337635
• ISBN 13: 9780745337630
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
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