Challenging Austerity: Radical Left and Social Movements in the South of Europe

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Half Title
Book Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Foreword
Introduction: social movements and radical politics in the European periphery – a world-systems analysis
	The articulation among European Mediterranean countries and northern European countries
	European periphery, technological rent and financial-real estate circuit
	Understanding social movements in the post-political era: materialism and the electoral arena
	The book
	Notes
	References
1 Radical Left in Portugal and Spain (1960–2010)
	The Iberian transitions to democracy: intertwined processes
	Radical projects in Spain and Portugal
	Revolutionary currents in Portugal
	The Bloco de Esquerda
	Revolutionary currents in  Spain
	Conclusions and reflections
	Acknowledgment
	Glossary of radical Left political organizations and movements in Portugal and Spain
	Notes
	References
2 Greece and Italy after the Second World War: contentious politics, cycles of protest and radical Left
	Introduction
	Civil war and the constitution of the “cachectic democracy” in Greece
	Social movements and collective action in the Third Hellenic Republic (1974–2000)
	From Genoa 2001 to Athens riots 2008
	Italy 1945–1973: the crisis of the traditional left, and the emergence of the “new grass-roots political militant”
	The oil crisis of 1973 and its aftermath
	The years after the lead: 1983–2001
	Post-2001: precarious labour, housing rights and sustainable development movements
	Conclusion
	References
3 Indignados, municipalism and Podemos: mobilisation and political cycle in Spain after the Great Recession
	From the Spain of consumption to the Spain of austerity
	The indignados and the first responses to the crisis
	The materialist turn of social protest: 2012–2014
	The electoral turn: from 2014 to  today
	Acknowledgements
	References
4 Political opportunities, threats and opportunism: examining Syriza’s rise in crisis-ridden Greek politics
	Introduction
	Political opportunities and opportunism
	Data sources and research methods
	The interactions between opportunists and ideologists
	Perceptions of threats, opportunity availability, and attributions of responsibility in the Greek anti-austerity campaign
	Concluding remarks
	References
5 Building the “contraption”: anti-austerity movements and political alternative in Portugal
	Introduction
	Austerity, crisis and social protests
	Social movements and democracy in times of austerity
	The Left, radicalism and the search for “alternative”
	Anti-austerity movements and political parties
	Moments of a protest cycle
	Beyond the movements: building the “contraption”
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6 When the Spring is not coming: Radical Left and social movements in Italy during the austerity era
	The economic crisis in Italy and the absence of an anti-austerity movement
	The failed momentum: the marginalisation of the radical Left after the G8 protests
	From the global to the local and return: the No Tav and No Dal Molin movements
	From the Web to the street: the rise of the M5S
	Final considerations
	Acknowledgement
	Notes
	References
Conclusion: learning from the economic crisis and the protest cycle in the South of Europe – implications for social movements and the Left
	The responses of labour, left parties and social movements
	The old is dying and the new is to be born
	Note
Index