{"id":181027,"date":"2015-09-14T15:07:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=181027"},"modified":"2015-09-14T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:07:38","slug":"jeremy-corbyn-welcome-europes-fight-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/jeremy-corbyn-welcome-europes-fight-austerity\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Corbyn, Welcome to Europe\u2019s Fight Against Austerity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p><strong>The Labour leader and my own party Podemos have one thing in common: a rejection of the neoliberalism that has impoverished our people<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-authors\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"grouping-prefix\">by\u00a0Pablo Iglesias<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>How surprising, paradoxical, even ironic, that much of the media are comparing the Labour veteran Jeremy Corbyn to <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/podemos\">Podemos<\/a>. What can the new leader of the old political party founded by British trade unions have in common with a movement <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/may\/27\/podemos-citizen-politics-spain-elections-indignados-movement\">born barely 18 months ago in Spain<\/a>? Basically one thing: the failure of the social-liberal \u201cthird way\u201d.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It is often said of my party that we represent the <em>indignados<\/em>, the outraged. This is not wrong, but is only half an explanation. This movement in Spain is an expression of the failure of neoliberalism, the political ideology which destroyed social protections, industry and trade unions, produced speculative bubbles and consumption based on credit, and proved unable to deliver acceptable solutions when the financial crisis accelerated the destruction of public services impoverishing both workers and the middle class. When the crisis hit <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/spain\">Spain<\/a>, the Socialist party PSOE, traditionally identified with the welfare state, was in government and failed to provide an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did the Spanish socialist party not react as socialists, they didn\u2019t even dare to reject the policies of austerity and the slashing of public spending or to offer a minimal Keynesian rescue programme. The prime minister Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Luis Rodriguez Zapatero simply surrendered to the crisis, embracing the same measures that a conservative government would have done. He himself acknowledged in a memoir that he knew that the measures he took would cost him elections and the leadership of his party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/sep\/14\/jeremy-corbyn-europes-fight-austerity-podemos\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour leader and my own party Podemos have one thing in common: a rejection of the neoliberalism that has impoverished our people by\u00a0Pablo Iglesias How surprising, paradoxical, even ironic, that much of the media are comparing the Labour veteran Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos. What can the new leader of the old political party founded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-181027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}