“It’s not pretty, it’s not beautiful, but among those of us who defend social justice it’s not goodbye, it’s au revoir.” With these words, Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias conveyed this Wednesday in a video broadcast with Teresa Rodríguez a feeling that underlies Rodríguez’ departure from the Andalusian (...)
“What is missing in this budget is not just the willingness to negotiate, which the government demonstrated very late. It lacks answers and a strategy for today’s problems”, said Catarina Martins, in her speech in the 2020 budget debate.
The Coordinator of the Left Bloc, in her speech in the (...)
From Syriza’s betrayal to the normalisation of austerity across Europe, it’s been a series of harsh lessons for progressive forces.
The financial crisis defined the European decade. It was the child of neoliberal policies, sketched by economists like Milton Friedmanand rolled out by leaders like (...)
This speech by Manuel Garí of Anticapitalistas and the editorial board of Viento Sur in the Spanish state was presented to the national convention of International Workers Left (DEA) in Athens, Greece, last December. In it, he discusses economic and political perspectives for the world, for (...)
Podemos’s deal with the PSOE promises Spain’s first left-wing coalition government since the 1930s. Yet with European and corporate elites already throwing up obstacles, Podemos’s hopes of forcing through change rely on it building its power outside the institutions.
“This government will be the (...)
We must address the crisis facing our political system, not least the worrying surge in support for the Vox party
• Pablo Iglesias is the secretary-general of Podemos, in coalition with the Spanish Socialist Workers’ party
The preliminary agreement for a coalition government that our party, (...)
Denmark’s Red-Green Alliance (RGA) held its 30th congress in Copenhagen on October 5-6, in a political context that contrasted strongly with that of its previous congress.
Eighteen months ago the party’s 300-plus congress delegates were preparing for a general election they hoped would lift the (...)
Interview with Red-Green Alliance MP Søren Søndergaard. Former metal worker Søren Søndergaard, who presently represents the outer Copenhagen electorate of Gladsaxe in the Danish parliament, has a long history in radical left politics. In the 1980s, he was part of the daily leadership of the (...)
Three years of chaos have opened space for big, bold progressive thinking, offering a new sense of hope
Who would now dare to find hope in among the Brexit nightmare? Halloween is just a month away, and there is still no sign of any breakthrough in negotiations. The Conservative party is (...)
Recently, the draft for a globalisation programme was submitted by the National Board of the Red-Green Alliance/Enhedslisten (Denmark), member of the Party of the European Left (EL), to the party’s next Annual Congress on 5 – 6 October. Read Walter Baier’s review.
There are a great many detailed (...)
The party has backed transformative policies including a four-day week, a Green New Deal and worker ownership funds.
The problem with the Corbyn project, supporters and opponents have sometimes complained, is not that it is too radical but that it is too conservative. Labour’s 2017 manifesto (...)
Momentum’s Jon Lansman has tabled a motion at Labour’s NEC for job to be abolished
Labour has been plunged into a fresh civil war on the eve of its annual conference, as allies of Jeremy Corbyn launched a bid to abolish Tom Watson’s post of deputy leader.
Jon Lansman, founder of the pro-Corbyn (...)
Pedro Sánchez hopes to win over anti-austerity alliance and end political impasse.
Spain’s acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has announced hundreds of progressive policies intended to persuade the anti-austerity Unidas Podemos alliance to back his efforts to form a government and avoid the (...)
The investiture of Pedro Sánchez has failed and along with it, the tactics of Podemos who invested all its assets to enter the government as a supposed guarantor of social policies. The PSOE has tried a double game: to placate the right by offering itself as a stabilizer of “reasonable” (...)
Spanish MPs voted down Pedro Sánchez’s investiture last Thursday, as Podemos refused his threadbare coalition deal. Yet it’s the radical left party whose strategy now hangs in the balance — and it may be forced into a humiliating climbdown.
Nearly three months after the Spanish general election, (...)
Talks between the Socialist Party and leftist Unidas Podemos should not have ended this way. So why did they?
It all happened so fast that there are plenty of people still trying to understand it. Not even the main protagonists of Thursday’s events in Congress are completely clear on just how (...)
The former mayor of the Spanish capital speaks to EL PAÍS about the future of the low-emissions zone, which the new right-wing municipal council has tried to suspend
The “mansion” owned by Manuela Carmena, if you believe the rumor mills, is in reality a small house in a middle-class neighborhood (...)
What a miserable object-lesson. What a miserable end.
Syriza has finally been crushed in the Greek legislative elections, in a vote with the lowest turnout since 1974. Worse, they’ve been crushed by New Democracy, the party they threw out four years ago. The discredited crooks and pirates whose (...)
This contribution has been published in the July-August issue of Sozialistische Zeitung (SoZ) which is published since 1986 in Cologne.*
The CWI is an international organization in the Trotskyist tradition. Its strongest national organization is the “mother party” Socialist Party in England and (...)
Surely in the upcoming elections of 7/7/19 we must “vote left”, surely we must “struggle against right-wing Mitsotakis and his friends among the “employers” and the “extreme right”. Surely we must support the prospect of a “strong anticapitalist left” rising to the occasion to prepare the “unitary (...)
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