Spain

On the Institutional Turn: Four Years of Electoral Municipalism - Juan Cruz López

Manuela Carmena campaigns for Ahora Madrid in 2015

An article written just prior to the 2019 municipal elections in Spain. The author rehearses the arguments in favour of the left's so-called institutional turn and considers its impact on social movements.

The Struggle of the Metro Workers of Granada

Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 1 2018 16:28

The leaflet below was issued by the Emancipation League whose appearance as a nucleus of the communist left we first welcomed in June this year. It demonstrates not only that the bosses are getting worried about rising class militancy (it’s a longtime since we heard the “selfish workers” line) but also that Liga Emancipación aim to have an impact on the wider working class as part of their formation as a nucleus of future world proletarian party. This is only to be welcomed. The brief introduction that follows here is from the Nuevo Curso blog from which this leaflet is translated. - CWO

Welcome to “Emancipación” (Spain)

Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 11 2018 22:08

We welcome the formation in Spain of a new nucleus of the future world party of the proletariat, one of the many fruits of the work of the Nuevo Curso blog collective from which they have sprung. We see them as a new, young and vital expression of the development of a movement based on the historic acquisitions of the class and look forward to working and exchanging with them as they develop. We reproduce here the translation of their initial founding announcement, as well as the introduction to it by Nuevo Curso. -Internationalist Communist Tendency

Sánchez Becomes Prime Minister of Spain

Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 15 2018 15:27

The rulers of all the major capitalist states have no solution to a world economic crisis which in various forms has now dragged on for decades. In the last few years chronic insoluble economic crisis has increasingly translated into political crisis. This has produced not just changes in government but questions about the institutions of these supposedly democratic regimes.

Helberg, Paul (1905-1989)

Submitted by Battlescarred on May 1 2018 22:30

A short biography of German anarchist Paul Helberg

Wüstemann, Martha (1908- 1992) aka Martha Lewin aka Julia Alino

Submitted by Battlescarred on Apr 29 2018 19:20

A short biography of the German anarchist Martha Wüstemann

Behind the elephants ... The class struggle

Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 28 2018 11:38

This is translated from the website of the Spanish blogging collective Nuevo Curso whose work we frequently translate for the English reading audience. The reference to elephants arises from a recent accident involving these animals. The London Evening Standard of 3rd April described it thus; “An elephant was killed and two others were injured when a circus truck carrying five of the huge animals overturned in south-eastern Spain. The vehicle toppled over when overtaking a slow lorry on the A-30 near Pozo Canada in the central region of Castilla-La Mancha on Monday.”