Internal strife and a narrowness of vision has halted the party’s rise – and left room for the far right to creep in
It was only five years ago that Spain’s break-out party Podemos became a dazzling new lodestar for Europe’s lost and troubled left. But with a snap election just weeks away, it now (...)
Last week, the Spanish left was rocked by news of a split in Podemos. Íñigo Errejón, co-founder and strategist behind the organisation’s spectacular rise in 2015, announced he will be running for the presidency of the Madrid region on a new platform in the coming elections.
Errejon has justified (...)
The rise of leaders like Sahra Wagenknecht and Jean-Luc Mélenchon marks a momentous turn against free movement in Europe—at the expense of immigrants.
In May 2016, at a conference for Germany’s left-wing Die Linke party, Torten für Menschenfeinde (“Pies for Misanthropes”) struck again. Sneaking up (...)
It is shocking to see that the right-wing government in power in Italy since Summer 2018 refuses to reduce the budgetary deficit while so-called left-wing governments bow to the constraints of austerity. It is now, when the peoples of the Eurozone are ever more disgusted by the policies imposed (...)
With a high degree of unity, the Left Bloc is well placed to face its challenges in 2019.
In 2019, European and legislative elections will take place in Portugal in a national political context different from anywhere else in the European Union (EU), where austerity policies still reign and (...)
On the northern outskirts of Barcelona, on La Rambla de Carmel, stands one of the most visually striking and symbolic monuments to the volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade of the International Brigades.
“David and Goliath”, designed by US sculptor Roy Shifrin and first unveiled in 1988, was (...)
Podemos’s backing for Spain’s Socialist cabinet risks making it a prop to the institutions it once rebelled against. Yet it has also imposed its own stamp on the government’s agenda.
It is perhaps telling of liberals’ current disarray that, in a recent newspaper column designed to demonstrate the (...)
In 2015, a wave of social movements lifted left-wing mayors to power in Spain. Their experience in office shows the importance of linking institutional power to bottom-up mobilization.
As a massive taxi strike in Spain spread from Barcelona to other cities across the country this July, the (...)
Mick Woods, a comrade from Britain who had lived in Denmark for more than twenty years, died at the too young age of 64 in July. But its not only in Britain and Denmark that Mick is mourned - the proudest achievement of his political life was his involvement in International Workers’ Aid, a (...)
Mick on anti-poll tax demo
We are writing to say goodbye to our friend and comrade Mick Woods who has died too young – at the early age of 64 in hospital in Aarhus, Denmark, write Geoff Ryan and Sue Woodford. Mick had longstanding health problems in particular with psoriasis which at times (...)
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The new German left coalition, Aufstehen , aims to break the morbid consensus of perpetual ‘grand coalition’. Unsurprisingly Wolfgang Streeck, one of the few sociologists who would think to ask the question How Will Capitalism End?, is one of its partisans, making the case for the coalition (...)
The Left Bloc was formed about twenty years ago in Portugal, by the fusion of forces from the anti-capitalist left and the social movement. Today, together with the Communist Party, it is the main formation of the combative left in the country. Based on the Bloc’s experience, Francisco Louçã (...)
Britain is in the midst of a profound political crisis around the question of how to navigate “Brexit”. The outcome of the EU referendum in 2016 now sets the coordinates for the main political parties, none of which wanted the result, “leave”. The Liberal Democrats pushed for a referendum that they (...)
For Teresa Rodriguez, the last few weeks [interview originally published 20 July 2018] have been ones of intense activity: presentation of the project “Adelante Andalucía” in different provinces, primary elections within Podemos Andalusia which finally confirmed her as the leader of this formation (...)
The Greek prime minister and Syriza have betrayed their people and their principles. They have to go.
Last week was the third anniversary of the 2015 referendum, in which the Greek people voted no to more austerity, and no to the violation of democracy by the creditors.
The week before Alexis (...)
The Greek prime minister and Syriza have betrayed their people and their principles. They have to go
Last week was the third anniversary of the 2015 referendum , in which the Greek people voted no to more austerity, and no to the violation of democracy by the creditors.
The week before Alexis (...)
As spokesperson for the Die Linke party in the Bundestag (with Dietmar Bartsch), Sahra Wagenknecht comes from the anti-capitalist left of the party and has long been its most popular representative. With her husband Oskar Lafontaine – both with high media profiles – she has been involved for some (...)
Jacobin published on June 9th an essay by Catarina Príncipe under the title” The Portuguese Myth”. We’ve deeply appreciated the considerations on the political changes in the country since 2015, furthermore considering it was written by a spokesperson for a minority current inside the Left Bloc, a (...)
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 (...)
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