Spain: floods unleash storm of protest
Catastrophic flooding in southern Spain has provoked anger among residents who say the government’s inaction made the crisis worse.
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
Rajoy loses Catalan elections – now it’s time to throw him out
The Spanish Prime Minister has been punished for his handling of the Catalan separatist crisis. Now is the moment for a united movement to kick out his austerity government
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Catalan elections set for inconclusive result
The struggle between Catalan separatists and the Madrid government has poisoned relations in the province, with neither side able to offer a satisfactory way forward
Catalan nationalists collapse with a whimper
After the nationalist debacle, it’s time for working class unity to fight for a socialist and democratic alternative
Spain: after the nationalist debacle, unite the working class
ON OCTOBER 27, the Catalan Parliament declared independence by 70 to 10, with 55 abstentions. The Spanish state responded by
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Rally to defend democracy in Catalonia, Spain and Europe!
IN CATALONIA, the Madrid government’s refusal to grant bail to the “two Jordis”, Jordi Sánchez chairman of the ANC and
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International solidarity against imperialism and terrorism
ISLAMIC STATE has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, which killed 13 people and wounded more
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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
Europe against austerity
The continent is still deep in recession. Coordinated by Germany, France and the European Commission and Central Bank, savage austerity
Anti-cuts struggle escalates in Spain
By K Tait Hundreds of masked, black-clad police advancing, firing rubber bullets into the backs of fleeing protesters. In a