European alternatives
In: Soundings: a journal of politics and culture, Heft 60
ISSN: 1362-6620
In a roundtable discussion, senior lecturer and researchers talked about the political ideas of Syriza and Podemos. Marina Prentoulis of the University of East Anglia and a member of Syriza said that what Syriza has already done has been to deliver a very big victory -- not just for the people in Greece, but a wider victory against neoliberal hegemony and neoliberal discourse. Sirio Canos of UCL Institute of Archaeology said that people in Spain are living in absolutely extraordinary times. Podemos was only created at the beginning of 2014, but within five months, on a tiny and crowdfunded budget, it had won five MEPs in the May European elections. Soon after this, Podemos was already topping the national polls in direct voting intention. While, Simon Dubbins of Unite the Union basically said that neoliberalism has been rammed down on people's throats for such a long time now, and it is what all of them are facing every day. It's driving the whole issue of precarious work. Adapted from the source document.