Friday, 19 April , 2024

Spain

Macron: a French (potential) Thatcher

by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Macron “scooped the pool and decamped” in the second round of the French presidential elections, scoring an easy victory over Marine Le...

DiEM25 debates its strategy

https://diem25.org/diem25-to-form-europes-first-transnational-political-party/ Comments from unofficial DiEM25 facebook group:   TM: I do not see any question like "Should DiEM25 become a political party?" anywhere to be answered. Pity...

Merci Jean-Luc!

  MÉLENCHON : Meeting pour la paix à Marseille Le dimanche 9 avril 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon était en meeting à Marseille devant 70 000 personnes. Il...

Senior British Politicians threaten war with Spain

Former UK Conservative Party leader Howard threatens war with Spain over Gibraltar By Julie Hyland Two senior British politicians have threatened that the Conservative government...

Poverty in Greece Gone Up 40% Since 2008

By Phillip Chrysopoulos The poverty in Greece increased by 40% from 2008 to 2015, according to a Cologne Institute of Economic Research study on European...

The Far Right’s Leftist Mask

The European far right has cynically appropriated left-wing and pro-worker talking points for its own purposes. by Alexandre Afonso & Line Rennwald In the early 1980s,...

Ten Proposals to Beat the European Union

  This collective text initiated by Eric Toussaint, of the CADTM campaign for the abolition of the debt of the global South has been collectively...

Renewed Sortu sets 2026 as target date for sovereign Basque Republic

By Dick Nichols Original Post Day: 3 February 2017 On January 21, in Bilbao’s hyper-modern Euskalduna Conference Centre, the Basque left pro-independence party Sortu concluded its...

Catalonia versus the Spanish state: the battleground in 2017

By Dick Nichols January 17, 2017 2017 will be the year of showdown between Catalonia and the Spanish state over whether the Catalan people have a...

Spain: the civil war in the Socialist Party and the challenges...

In the end, on October 29, it all worked out pretty well for Mariano Rajoy. After patiently implementing his motto that “all things come to he who waits”, the leader of the minority conservative People’s Party (PP) was that day confirmed as Spain’s prime minister for a second four-year term.