The primary goal of Podemos is to marshal an ample majority, which means in practice to build a middle-class party, and to give up the traditional Left/Right axis for a position of centrality. Español.
How do we make sense of the seemingly incongruous coalition between Syriza and the Independent Greeks?
A look at Yanis Varoufakis's journey from maverick economist to Greece's finance minister - as told through his contributions to openDemocracy.
The EU might have predicted Syriza's overwhelming victory. After all, wasn't this the great unlearned lesson from the experience of east-central Europe over the last 25 years?
Today’s show of mass support and the clear affection people in the crowd have for him will undoubtedly give Iglesias a much needed boost.
Like many prominent Greek politicians, Alexis Tsipras cut his teeth as a student politician in the intense and fascinating world of Greek university politics.
Will Syriza's victory lead to a 'radical left' Spring across Europe, or are such reactions premature?
Could Greece, through democratic elections, become for Turkey what Tunisia became for Egypt in 2011 through mass protests?
As the new government’s statement on Mariupol reveals, Greece will leverage its position along a geopolitical fault-line to maximise its bargaining power.
A number of ministers in the new Greek government have already been criticised by European commentators for their supposedly pro-Russian views. What explains this unique strain of Russophilia among the Greek radical left?
Why is nobody talking about Golden Dawn coming a sensational third in the Greek elections?
The Irish political elite is deeply invested in an essentially religious narrative: Ireland sinned, Ireland confessed, Ireland did penance, Ireland has been forgiven, Ireland will be rewarded. If Syriza's strategy in Greece succeeds, this will be exposed as a folly.
