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Introduction: Social movements and radical politics in the European periphery. A World-systems Analysis. Beltran Roca, Emma Martin-Diaz and Iban Diaz-Parra 1. Radical left in Portugal and Spain (1960-2010). Julio Perez Serrano 2. Greece and Italy after the Second World War: Contentious Politics, Cycles of Protest and Radical Left. Nikos Serdedakis, Elisabetta della Corte and Markos Vogiatzoglou 3. Indignados, municipalism and Podemos. Mobilization and political cycle in Spain after the Great Recession. Iban Diaz-Parra, Emma Martin-Diaz y Beltran Roca 4. Political opportunities, threats, and opportunism: Examining Syriza’s rise in crisis-ridden Greek politics. Kostas Kanellopoulos 5. Building the ‘Contraption’: Anti-austerity movements and political alternative in Portugal. Elisio Estanque, Hermes Augusto Costa and Dora Fonseca 6. When the spring is not coming. The political space left empty by the Italian leftist movements during the contemporary economic crisis. Luca Queirolo Palmas and Simone Castellani Conclusions: Learning from the economic crisis and the protest cycle in the South of Europe. Implications for Social Movements and the left. Emma Martin-Diaz, Iban Diaz-Parra and Beltran Roca