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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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