Is there such a thing as `left populism' or is it just a fancy term for new parties that gain popularity? Who are the `people' and how can they challenge the `establishment'? Does the rise of Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain signal a new type of `left' and can this left reverse the `politics as usual' logic that led us to the 2008 financial crisis? Having gone through a rollercoaster of emotions, from the political ecstasy of the Movement of the Squares- Indignados in Greece and in Spain in 2011 and the optimism that followed the results of the Greek national elections, to the anger...

Is there such a thing as `left populism' or is it just a fancy term for new parties that gain popularity? Who are the `people' and how can they challenge the `establishment'? Does the rise of Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain signal a new type of `left' and can this left reverse the `politics as usual' logic that led us to the 2008 financial crisis? Having gone through a rollercoaster of emotions, from the political ecstasy of the Movement of the Squares- Indignados in Greece and in Spain in 2011 and the optimism that followed the results of the Greek national elections, to the anger...