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In the late 2000s the Dutch Socialist Party was a success story, having risen from a small Maoist group into a 50,000-member party. But a split with its youth wing and talk of a coalition with right-wingers have demoralized activists — and shown the dangers of a parliamentary party becoming (...)
Sylvana Simons’ party will stand in the 2021 Dutch general election. ‘We’re activating people who’ve never felt politicians speaking to them.’ #12DaysofResistance
“The Dutch have perfected their facade. They are the definition of ‘facade!’” Sylvana Simons tells me, laughing, on a video call from her (...)
On 13 December as part of the “Subversive Festival” in Zagreb, two European zoom-panels were organised presenting the two texts translated into Croatian produced by the network Recommons Europe (see https://www.cadtm.org/ReCommonsEurope-Manifesto-for-a-New-Popular-Internationalism-in-Europe and (...)
Forward Andalusia leader Teresa Rodríguez.
Maribel Mora, representing the radical left coalition Forward Andalusia on the Andalusian parliament’s speakership board, got a nasty surprise on October 27.
Minutes before the board was due to meet in Seville, fellow Forward Andalusia MP Inmaculada (...)
All principled socialists should join the newly forming A*CR, argue Neil Faulkner and Simon Hannah. Here’s why.
We have taken a small step forwards in the attempt to realign the Left. At the weekend, around 70 people joined the Ecosocialism or Disaster Capitalism event organised by (...)
The creation of Podemos in the Spanish state was an important attempt to build an anti-neoliberal and pluralist mass party to the left of social-liberalism. That experience, which started very well, has finally ended very badly. Perhaps, for this reason, the title of this article could have (...)
Last weekend’s Croatian election saw a fresh step forward for the Green-Left coalition, with the Workers’ Front electing Katarina Peović as its first MP. She told Jacobin how activists in the former Yugoslav republic are building the fight for democratic socialism.
The results of the Croatian (...)
On 14 May 2020, Anticapitalistas, a founding component of Podemos and historical current of the radical left in the Spanish state linked to the Fourth International, announced its departure from Podemos. In reality, this decision was taken on 28 March when, in an internal consultation process (...)
The demonstration called in Turin, in solidarity with the African Americans in revolt over the murder of George Floyd, seemed to be one of those routine solidarity actions which we do because we feel we have to, but too often do not really have much of an impact with local people.
Black Lives (...)
On 28 March, an internal voting process ended in which Anticapitalistas decided to leave Podemos. Seventy-nine per cent of the membership participated; of these 89 per cent voted in favour, 3 per cent against and 7.5 per cent abstained. We decided to wait until today to make this decision (...)
The following statement is from Anticapitalistas, an organization of revolutionary socialists who helped initiate the Podemos political party in the Spanish state. Over the past six years, Anticapitalistas has maintained a rocky but constructive relationship with Podemos’ central leaders, (...)
“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 (...)
Poland’s left parties have cooperated in the campaign leading to today’s general election. But can they find common answers to the problems facing ordinary Poles?
It has been an awful campaign season. An early indication of its main themes happened in March when the Marshall of the Senate, (...)
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