By Yiannos Katsourides
This e-book offers a comparative research of the way radical left events completed govt participation and their next political studies. within the face of the main serious and such a lot lengthy problem within the historical past of capitalism, it might be anticipated for radical left events to grab the chance to advertise their political time table. even supposing truth has frequently confounded analysis, specific radical left events – the Greek SYRIZA and the Cypriot AKEL – have been elected to the top executive place of work. the writer makes use of those examples to interact with the wider query of what to anticipate while left-wing radicals in attaining governance. this query is now of specific significance given the emergence of radical leftists in different components of Europe, together with Corbyn within the united kingdom and Podemos in Spain.
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The Nordic parties) found it easier to adopt a postCommunist identity and to survive the USSR’s collapse unscathed, albeit totally transformed. , Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, France) even beyond then. All communist parties, however, felt the weight of their ideological baggage at this critical juncture, in one sense or another, and all experienced internal tensions (Bull and Heywood 1994). The parties that stood firm in their socialist principles suffered a huge decline in their membership and electoral influence to the degree that their very survival was under threat (Katz and Mair 1992: 335).
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Essentially, the PCI harmonized its practice with its theory, as did most reformist communist parties. To remain relevant many of those then-transformed RLPs turned to government participation; since the early 1990s, parties to the left of social democracy have participated in governments in Finland, Norway, Iceland, France, Italy, Ireland, Cyprus, and most recently in Greece. , see Daiber 2010). THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES AND THE DIVERGENT STRATEGIES Probably the most important question plaguing the modern radical Left is whether a class-based Left is politically “allowed” to take part in a government coalition or whether it can even accept this role if it means subscribing to a Left government programme that promotes the classic social democratic paradigm.
