Lessons from the pandemic for the municipalists in Spain
The pandemic has damaged municipalism in Barcelona, but it has strengthened the municipalist hypothesis itself: our strength must be rooted in togetherness
View ArticleThe Spanish State’s “Nationalization” of Clinics Resembles Privatization
The pattern of how capitalist countries respond to the crisis – namely, by putting private profit over shared wellbeing and overemphasizing individual responsibility while avoiding controls on...
View ArticleAt Townhall, Biden Promises Big Green Infrastructure and Jobs
Spain’s Example Suggests he is Right
View ArticleWe Want a Spanish Republic
Spanish deputy prime minister and Unidas Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias talks to Jacobin about the experience of Spain's left in government, the current historical moment, and Podemos's trajectory over...
View ArticleSpanish state: Splendour and decline of Podemos – Reasons for a farewell
Interview on the evolution of Podemos and explains why the decision to leave was taken
View ArticleEscaping Franco’s Legacy
Millions of Spaniards still remember life under fascism. Now, with lockdown’s limits on freedom compounded by the erosion of free speech under Franco-style laws, as seen by Pablo Hasél’s jailing, a new...
View ArticleSpain to Experiment With 4-Day Workweek
"The benefits of a four-day workweek include reduced unemployment, increased productivity, and greater employee well-being."
View ArticlePablo Iglesias quits Spanish government ‘to stop’ the far Right in Madrid
Members of the left-wing party Unidas Podemos explain their leader’s extraordinary decision to stand in Madrid’s regional elections in May
View ArticleThe Justice McDonald’s Workers Seek Workers at Spain’s Mondragón Have Found
At each of Mondragón’s 96 cooperative enterprises, executives make no more than a tiny fraction of U.S. executive take-home, no more than six times what workers in the network’s Spanish co-ops make
View ArticleWhat happened to the municipalists in Spain?
For four years, municipalists held power in cities across Spain. Their successes and setbacks hold important lessons for municipalist activists and organizers today
View Article‘If you report abuse, you lose your job’
Fed up with exploitation and sexual assault, women farm workers in Spain are campaigning to make their collective voice heard
View ArticleWhat now for the Spanish Left?
The right-wing and conservatives are hurrying to declare the Spanish Left to be dead. It’s not as simple as that
View ArticleGive Us a Three-Day Weekend at the Beach, Every Week
Recent trials of a four-day week in Iceland have shown the merits of a shorter working week
View ArticleA feminist foreign policy for Spain
Spain advocates for building a feminist foreign policy and is taking the first steps to do so. But where do you begin?
View ArticleSpain’s Democracy is Being Undermined by Deep State Actors
‘Catalangate’ has rocked Spanish politics
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Spanish Airport Workers Go on Strike
Amid a global airline crisis, Spanish airline workers are on strike for almost 2 weeks. Workers at Ryanair airlines, along with the unions Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) and Sindicato Independiente de...
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Salvador Allende Still Speaks to Us Today
Fifty years ago, in late 1972, I was one of a multitude of Chileans who lined the streets of Santiago to support President Salvador Allende as he embarked on a trip abroad to tell the world about how...
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Spain’s Left Badly Needs to Join Its Forces
“To defeat the Right [electorally] is relatively easy but we want to change people’s lives and to win a new country.” So said Spanish labor minister Yolanda Díaz as polling showed her proposed...
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Integrating Landscapes and People
Imagine being in a village in Southern Spain. You are driving down the main road, leaving the houses behind and entering a long valley with hills to your right and left. It is a valley that the...
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Hundreds of Thousands March in Madrid to ‘Defend the Health Service’ From...
Madrid residents on Sunday marched to protest the right-wing regional government’s attacks on the public healthcare system, with hundreds of thousands of participants showing that concern over the...
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