Europe
Spain: Podemos leads left gains in Andalusia poll

Podemos’s lead candidate Teresa Rodriguez.
Ireland: Sinn Féin fights welfare attacks in north, power sharing threatened

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness.
Greece: Radical Eric Toussaint to audit Greek debt

Zoe Konstantopoulou (centre) with Eric Toussaint (right).
Venezuela and Greece strengthen partnerships

Venezuela's foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez (right)
David Renton: On SYRIZA and the Independent Greeks; and compromises and alliances

"The migration minister is Tasia Christodoulopoulou, doyenne of Greek migrants’ lawyers – the equivalent in England of giving our unreconstructed CLR James-ite Ian Macdonald the job."
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By David Renton
March 7, 2015 -- Lives; Running, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- Six weeks ago, when SYRIZA formed a coalition with the Independent Greeks (ANEL) the most common view among my friends was that this was SYRIZA’s first betrayal and that others would inevitably follow.
Greece: Yiannis Bournous' thoughts on the new situation and SYRIZA's responsibilities

Learn to swim, comrade
Because the tide is rising