Catalonia

Catalonia and the Spanish state on collision course

1.8 million people (25% of the population of Catalonia), took pa

Spain: Podemos and the dynamic reorganisation of the left

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Catalonia: ‘Let’s Win Barcelona’ lays down unity challenge for left

The school hall in which the launch of "Let

Spanish state: Eruption of Podemos sparks turmoil left and right

By Dick Nichols

Spanish king abdicates: circuit breaker or fuse igniter?

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Spanish state: ‘We must continue to widen the cracks that have begun to open up’

By Josep Maria Antentas, translated by Federico Fuentes for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal.

First published in Spanish at Dominio Publico. More analysis of politics in the Spanish state.

May 26, 2014 -- Six years have passed since the “official” start of the crisis, when Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008. Four years since [then president Jose Luis Rodriguez] Zapatero announced the first big package of cuts in May 2010. Three years since 15M (the May 15 Movement) exploded onto the streets. Two years since the large demonstration for independence in Catalonia on September 11, 2012.

European elections: Hope in the gloom as left gains in Greece, Spain, Ireland