Agitated: Grupos Autónomos and Armed Anticapitalism in Spain, by Joni D.
The 1970s was a decade of broken dreams. The end of the postwar boom brought to a close the era of middle-class liberalism in Europe and North America.(...)
Salvador Puig Antich: Collected Writings on Repression and Resistance in Franco’s Spain
A concrete platform occupies a bend in the road in the El Roquetes neighbourhood of Barcelona. It overlooks a dusty playground and a climbing wall, and then beyond the broad sweep of the city and the azure sea.(...)
Xi Jinping’s Globalisation Gamble
The orchestration of Chinese politics by the Communist Party continues. But this year, the National People’s Party Congress was different.(...)
Coronavirus and the EU
The term “crisis” is applied all too freely in politics and journalism. It has become a common designation for the Coronavirus outbreak as well. (...)
The False Promise of Centrism
“You can’t change things if you’re in opposition,” says the centrist dad. “Labour has to get back into power to help the majority of people. That means we have to appeal to the centre-ground. Otherwise, you’re just a protest party.”(...)
The Search for Intelligent Life
X left defeated by x far-right. It doesn’t matter where it is. It always happens, in every country.
It happens so regularly, in fact, you’d think it was preprogrammed. Conspiracy theory, anyone?(...)
The Berta Barbet Porta Interview, Part II
The Berta Barbet Porta Interview
Spain was thought to be safe. Despite the persistence of Partido Popular governments since 2011, over the last few years, the party to watch was the leftist Podemos. An anti-austerity movement that emerged following the 2008 financial crisis, Unidas Podemos, as it renamed itself, managed to stick to its guns where other progressive parties of its generation, such as Greece's Syriza, did not.(...)