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Dave Kellaway looks back at the Pablo Iglesias era which found the Spanish left in the political ascendancy.
A month or so ago, Pablo Iglesias failed in his bid to push back the right wing ascendancy in the Madrid regional elections. The defeat turned into a personal turning point for him as (...)
José Maria Galante was born in Madrid on 27 April 1948, died from Covid-19 during the night of 28-29 March 2020.
The news in the early morning of the death from the coronavirus of José María Galante Serrano, “Chato”, has deeply affected that huge minority that forms the ocean of resistance and (...)
On the 8th of December 1929 at Alexanderplatz in Berlin, the Sozialistischer Schülerbund (Union of Socialist School Pupils) staged an anti-nationalist and anti-colonial demonstration. This was part of the increasing anti-colonial events being organized and run by the political Left within (...)
“Trotskyism”: an insult, betrayal or, in the best of cases, an exotic strangeness. It was in 1978, at the heart of a period when ideologically Stalinism and its variants weighed heavily on the radical left which, while valiantly leading its fight against fascism, was beset by fratricidal (...)
There were 12 people at Karl Marx’s burial. His grave was small and neglected until 1956 when the British Communist Party organised a grander memorial. A new memorial is now being discussed
On March 15, 1883, the day after Karl Marx died, Friedrich Engels wrote to the German-American Socialist (...)
“Comunista y enamorao de la vida, o al revés” / “Communist and in love with life, or the other way around” (the way he presented himself in his facebook page).
The network of transform! europe deeply deplores the death Javier Navascues, co-founder of our network and for many years a member of its (...)
Disclaimer: This series of articles on Varoufakis’s book, Adults in The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment is a guide for left-leaning readers who are not happy with the dominant narrative meted out by the mainstream media and the Troika-controlled governments. This is also a guide (...)
For parts 1 and 2, see ESSF (article 43070), Yanis Varoufakis’s Self-Incriminating Account of the Greek Crisis – Parts 1 and 2:
http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article43070 Part 3: How Tsípras, with Varoufakis’s aid, turned his back on Syriza’s platform
Yanis Varoufakis traces his (...)
This interview was the third of a summer series, conducted by Lenny Benbara, Léo Rosell and Vincent Dain for the French site Le Vent Se Lève (www.lvsl.fr ). Jaime Pastor is a professor of political science (who supervised the thesis of Pablo Iglesias) and a historic intellectual of the (...)
Part One: Proposals Doomed to Fail
In his latest book, Adults in the Room , Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. It essentially analyses the period 2009-2015, though it makes incursions into earlier periods. (...)
The new Catalan party, Catalunya en Comú, faces challenges all new political organizations must overcome.
“But I’m not going to win because the only way I’d see I came in first would be if winning meant that I was going to escape the coppers after doing the biggest bank job of my life, but winning (...)
What a difference election day makes. “Make June the end of May,” they said; and so they did.
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Theresa May has gone from being the adored “mummy” of Tory activists, whose secret strength according to A N Wilson and Matthew D’Ancona was her matriarchal “sex appeal”, to being the woman who shot the (...)
From Gujarat to Grunwick: How Progressive Politics Turned from Solidarity to Identity
August 1976. Six Guajarati women downed their tools and walked out of a photo processing factory in Grunswick, North London. The acrimonious industrial dispute that ensued would persist for two full years, (...)
For all of its success, Podemos has refused to deal seriously with the European Union and what it would take to truly transform Spain.
In Spain, the popular challenge to austerity that began with the indignados movement — commonly abbreviated as 15-M, for May 15, the day the protests began in (...)
The following piece was written for Kojkkino, the theoretical magazine of the Greek organization DEA. Though quite long, it does not claim to cover all sides of the question. Indeed, it’s the kind of article that is never really finished and that has to be constantly reworked and supplemented. (...)
This Sunday (17 January 2016) we celebrate the anniversary of our first public act: the press conference at the Lavapiés Theater District in Madrid in which we were lucky to participate. We have built a great organization which has managed in two years of history to produce a storm of enthusiasm (...)
Syriza won power in January 2015 as an anti-austerity party—the most advanced political opposition so far to the hardening deflationary policies of the Brussels–Berlin–Frankfurt axis. Six months later, the Tsipras government forced through the harshest austerity package Greece had yet seen. This (...)
Tony Benn really did pose a danger to the British establishment; because he continued, even after Thatcher and Blair, to inspire those pushing for radical change.
As the British establishment posthumously patronizes those it went all out to destroy, it’s worth remembering Tony Benn’s own (...)
It is a bitter irony that Tony Benn has died in the very same week as Bob Crow, two giants of the labour movement who will be cruelly missed writes Phil Hearse. Numerous instant obituaries and comments have concentrated on Benn’s determination, his speaking and writing talents, his humour and (...)
The renowned cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who died on 10 February, was the first editor of the New Left Review (NLR). Stepping down in 1962, he continued to play an outstanding role in the broader New Left for the rest of his life. Stuart made decisive contributions to cultural theory and (...)
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