This panel will consider the resilience of neoliberalism and the state of the political left in the context of 'crisis EU', with reference to three country cases: Greece, Spain and Ireland.  Each of these countries has been signifiacntly impacted by the crisis; in each case governments have imposed a neoliberal austerity commensurate with EU level policies; and in each context oppositional social and political movements have emerged. The Greek case in particular has revealed the difficulties of translating national resistance and opposition into substantive shifts away from a European neo-liberal agenda in the context of the prevailing (Brussels-Frankfurt) governance of the single currency and so-called bailouts.  And this case has been vocally cited in the other national contexts by governing actors seeking to undermine similar forms of domestic resistance to policies of austerity and privatisation. Yet in the form of both social movements and political parties, resistance in these cases endures as the effects of austerity (notwithstanding declarations in Spain and Greece about recovery) continue to be accutely felt.  This is reflected in electoral polls and visible on the streets and in other contexts.  Indeed, we witness in crisis EU a tension between an apparently resilient neoliberalism on the one hand and a resilient resistance to neoliberalism on the other.  This panel will explore this tension with an empirical focus on these three country cases.