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Friday, August 14, 2015

Can Spain's Podemos party reignite Europe's leftist movement?

In the mining valleys of Asturias in northern Spain, where heavy industry and unionization have kept families loyal to the mainstream left for generations, a growing disillusion with austerity, joblessness, and mainstream parties generally has turned this into fertile territory for Podemos, Spain’s far left, the anti-austerity party. “We want something new,” says Diego Romero, a 22-year-old who studied mechanics and can’t find a first job. While Europe's far left has come down from the high it enjoyed earlier this year, primarily on the back of Greece's now-humbled Syriza party, analysts say it is still a political force to be reckoned with.


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