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Jaime Pastor is a leading member of Anticapitalistas, the author of several books, including Nationalism, the Spanish State, and the Left (Viento Sur) , and the editor of Viento Sur magazine, a leading voice of the left in the Spanish State. This article was published by Viento Sur and (...)
Denmark’s “ghetto plan” promises harsher policing of districts with high unemployed and ethnic-minority populations and selling off the public housing where they live. The Social Democrats’ shameful policy shows that anti-immigrant chauvinism isn’t a way of defending the welfare state — it’s an (...)
The last couple of months have been turbulent for The Left party (in Slovenian, Levica). Firstly, the Left failed to cross the threshold in the EU parliamentary election. Even the fact that their candidate, Violeta Tomić, was also the Spitzenkandidat for the Party of the European Left did not (...)
Parliamentary elections have failed to give a clear majority to the social democrats of PSOE or to the conservative bloc. An overview of the results and the implications for the left by Green Left Weekly’s Europe correspondent.
The apparent winner of the November 10 Spanish general election was (...)
It seems that former Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez and Unidas Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias have agreed to form a coalition government. Unidas Podemos might win a few concessions on labour rights and social protection. But they will have to agree to an austerity (...)
Will outgoing centre-left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez make concessions to the radicals of Podemos, Más País and the Catalan and Basque nationalists? The radical left lost seats in the November 10 parliamentary election, but it may still has the potential to force concessions from the centre-left (...)
After a failed early election gambit, Spain’s social democrat prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has accepted a coalition government with the radical left Podemos. Eoghan Gilmartin and Tommy Greene see this as “a huge achievement for the Left — and a way to free Spain of its sharpening nationalist (...)
Victory for the Socialists in last month’s Portuguese election rewarded its successes in easing austerity. But for the Left, the fight isn’t over — especially as the European Union tightens the screws on the country’s public spending.
As far-right forces surge across Europe, Portugal looks like (...)
As Portugal heads to the polls this Sunday, the Socialist government boasts of its success in breaking the country out of austerity. Yet as the Left Bloc’s Francisco Louçã tells Jacobin, the current low-investment growth model is unsustainable — and fundamental questions around debt restructuring (...)
After a year dominating the government from the Interior Ministry, Matteo Salvini is now set to become prime minister. The opposition has worked hard to highlight what a bad guy he is — but totally failed to confront him politically.
It’s an index of the Left’s impotence that its main hope of (...)
Debt is not a natural disaster, nor is it the effect of excessive social expenditure: its odious nature derives from its negative consequences on the population. The Italian case.
“If Salvini really wanted to fight Brussels, as he says, he would have to push for the government to stop repaying (...)
In the May 26 European elections, the greatest losses by an affiliate of the United Left Group/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) in the European parliament were incurred in the Spanish state by the radical force Unidas Podemos. The fact that the European contest coincided with elections for Spain’s (...)
Denmark’s general election is set to produce the most left-wing parliament in decades. But the country’s Social Democrats have disgraced themselves with anti-immigrant rhetoric.
As Denmark votes in Wednesday’s general election, the country faces what looks like a historic swing to the left. The (...)
The results of the Andalusian regional elections left everyone waiting anxiously for what might follow. They indicated a trend which, if continued in an upward sense, would confirm the worst forecasts, comparable to the end of “Game of Thrones”. But finally, the results were not an absolute (...)
Setbacks for Syriza have prompted Alexis Tsipras to call an early general election. Yet as a onetime left-wing government reaches the end of the road, the bases for rebuilding the fight against austerity look weaker than ever.
Let’s be clear: the disaster was even worse than even the most (...)
In the May 2015 Spanish local government elections, citizens from 6 out of 17 state capitals elected radical council tickets with more progressive policies than the mainstream Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), winner of the recent general election.
These tickets won control of Madrid, (...)
With a turnout of more than 75%, the PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español – Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) was the main winner (28.70% of votes, with 123 seats, as against 2016 when it obtained 85) against the PP (Partido Popular – Popular Party), which has entered an irreversible crisis (it (...)
The popularity of Vox contributed to Pedro Sánchez’s election win, but so did the decline of Unidas Podemos
Pedro Sánchez is the clear winner of Sunday’s snap elections in Spain. With the highest turnout since 1996, the prime minister’s Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE) won nearly double the number of seats of its closest competitor, the conservative Popular Party (PP). But in the country’s highly fragmented political system, it is unlikely to govern alone. Instead, Sánchez must look for support (...)
Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez styles himself as the main barrier to Spain’s rising far right. Yet his record as prime minister shows how little he is doing to stop it.
As Spain faces crucial elections this weekend, interim Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez looks set to be the big winner. Polling (...)
Thousands of doctors and nurses have left Romania in past decade, leading to dire staff shortages.
Gabriela Dumitru was supposed to retire years ago, but instead, she’s working longer hours than ever before. The 65-year-old is one half of a team of two doctors at the neonatology ward in (...)
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