Spain: can the socialist-populist embrace last?
Podemos and the PSOE have formed a coalition against a marked swing to the right
Spain heads to the polls
Spain heads to the polls on 28th April in a snap election which has exposed the political bankruptcy of all five main parties and threatens to propel the far right to power.
Spain: Sánchez ousts Rajoy but what next?
By Dave Stockton PEDRO SANCHEZ, leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), is now in the Moncloa Palace as
The political crisis in Spain
AFTER TEN months of political wrangling and two inconclusive elections, Mariano Rajoy’s Popular Party (PP) has secured the support of the
Catalonia independence referendum a headache for right and left
When Spain adopted its post-Franco constitution there was a fierce battle over the character of the state. The Right insisted
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Spain: deadlock after elections is a chance for new thinking
With new elections likely, workers’ mobilisations could shift the balance of forces THE Spanish general election of December 20 created
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Hegemony or power: should Podemos be a model for the left?
In the aftermath of Labour’s defeat, speakers from the Brick Lane Debates group at the 14 May Radical Left Assembly
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Podemos and the limits of responsibility
By KD Tait Spanish anti-austerity party Podemos (We Can) won 14.8 per cent and took 15 seats in elections to
Podemos fails to breakthrough in Andalusia elections
By Christian Gebhardt 4 April 2015 This is super election-year in Spain. In May, there are local elections across the
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Can Podemos be won to class politics?
By Christian Gebhardt Podemos, the expression of what has been called “the new politics” in Spain, has just held its
Is Podemos a model for the European left?
By Markus Lehner Spain bucked the rightward trend in May’s European Parliament elections by electing five MEPs from the new