Pablo Iglesias and Irene Montero accused of betraying principles over €600,000 purchase
The leader of Spain’s anti-austerity Podemos party and its parliamentary spokeswoman are submitting themselves to a confidence vote in the hope of putting an end to criticism of their decision to buy a (...)
The radical citizens’ movement and party, Barcelona en Comú, has a goal of democratizing the relationship between civil society and city institutions by transforming the traditional structures of political parties and creating new formsof democratic political participation. Through the study of (...)
While nationalists agitate over the Macedonia naming dispute, the Macedonian left is seeking alliances with progressive forces in the region.
The tension created by the “naming dispute” between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia and the complexities of the domestic politics in both countries (...)
1. The “Macedonian issue” is not a historic national issue, but rather a modern political one. The formation of the macedonian nationality and national conscience follows a parallel course with that of the other Balkan nations (Greek, Serbian, Albanian, Bulgarian), throughout the long term (...)
Italy’s left is struggling to present an alternative in an election where abstention is expected to hit record levels.
Potere al Popolo holds its first national assembly in Rome on December 17, 2017.
As Italy builds up to its general election on Sunday, the country’s right is ascendant. (...)
A massive right-wing demonstration in Athens earlier this month has raised an old political question revolving around Macedonia, the nation that declared independence following the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, but which has always been claimed by nationalists as part of (...)
French leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon said Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his ruling Radical Left SYRIZA should be expelled from the European Left party after breaking vows to impose more austerity than a center-right New Democracy-led government which preceded it.
Melenchon said Tsipras, (...)
A critical analysis of the outcome of Catalonia’s December 21 election was published earlier on this site . The author, Marti Caussa, is an editor of the Spanish print and web-based journal of the “alternative left,” Viento Sur. Here below are excerpts from a later assessment by another (...)
Marti Caussa is an editor of Viento Sur. This article was originally published in the Catalan language. I have translated it from the Spanish version in Viento Sur . And I follow it below with some additional comments.
Richard Fidler
Breakdown of the number of seats (escaños) in the Parlement (...)
In Rome on December 17, the first national meeting of Potere al Popolo (Power to the People), a new grass-roots left-wing movement aiming at running for the next general elections in March. But the new group also aims at giving new lifeblood and a new perspective to Italy’s radical left.
The (...)
2017 has been a remarkable year from Labour under Jeremy Corbyn, writes Susan Moore. Labour did so much better in the general election than anyone, including Labour activists, expected – impelled by both an excellent manifesto and a powerful campaign. Corbyn and his team went on to have a (...)
Anticapitalistas (the section of the Fourth International in the Spanish state) held its second congress in Madrid (December 7-9, 2017). To understand the context and the challenges, Juan Tortosa met Brais Fernández, a member of the group’s leadership. Juan Tortosa – What is Anticapitalistas, how (...)
The National Leadership of SAP supports the general line of the following document. Due to the limits on the discussion posts, it contains no analysis of the current class struggle situation in Denmark (which is not in favour of the working class…).
In January 2011, I wrote a chapter to the (...)
With the Catalan standoff emboldening the Spanish right, can Podemos revive its populist alternative to the status quo?
Since the proclamation of a Catalan republic on October 27, the independence movement in Catalonia has been on the retreat. Hours after the parliamentary vote on (...)
“A new actor is emerging as a promoter of mobilizations supporting independence movements, but leading more direct actions, such as the occupations of public spaces and blockades of communications. So the Catalan press analysed the mobilizations of thousands of “citizens” after they mounted (...)
Mural calling for freedom for political prisoners arrested by the Spanish state in the Catalan city of Terressa.
The struggle in Catalonia for self determination has shaken the whole Spanish state. It has forced all political forces to take a stance.
Much of the left across the Spanish state, (...)
“There is little doubt that we are facing a triple strategic dilemma as complex as it is inescapable. The question is whether it is also as unresolvable as it is decisive.”
1. Without a plan. This sums up the Catalan government’s strategy after the proclamation of the Catalan Republic on October (...)
Resigned leader Albano-Dante Fachin says he is holding talks with ERC and CUP.
The secretary general of left-wing Podemos in Catalonia, Albano-Dante Fachin, resigned from the party on Monday. He had been considering a joint candidacy with pro-independence parties for the December 21 elections, (...)
This statement was issued by Anticapitalistas, section of the Fourth International in the Spanish state, on 29 October 2017.
1- On 27 October, following the mandate of the referendum of 1 October in which more than 2 million people participated despite police repression, the Catalan Parliament (...)
“RISE is unequivocal in its support for the independent republic of Catalonia, after the historic vote on Friday 27 October in the Catalan Parliament.
“RISE believes the international community must now recognise Catalonia as a sovereign and independent state. In particular, we call on the (...)
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