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1. Fighting the far right in Germany

   councillors and a specific leaflet on women’s issues and what the AfD actually says about women’s issues. ... themselves on the basis of outright racist, anti-refugee demagogy (“Close the Borders!”) into the AfD ... rates in the East are still significantly higher than in the West [and] wages are 15% lower on average. ...

2. Spain: Radical councils face challenge in local elections

   in the poorest neighbourhoods and creating liveable cities through a war on pollution and boosting ... Sabadell (Catalonia). In the four years since, these radical councils have focused on affordable housing, ... for consulting with citizens on whether the city’s water supply should remain privatised. While none ...

3. Spain: The meaning of Sánchez’s new ‘progressive’, ‘feminist’ cabinet

   factor — the extraordinary five million-strong outpouring of women on International Women’s Day this ... surcharge on pharmaceuticals and prosthetics, waged war on pseudo medicine like homeopathy and reversed PP ... on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) can be properly funded and sped up ...

4. Spanish election: will the right triumph?

   sovereignty movement. It will be a “referendum on the secessionist menace”, according to People’s Party (PP) ... Organised by the Catalan National Assembly, Òmnium Cultural and the platform Women and Men of Madrid for the ... been dumped in the war for votes. The PP’s preselection process has been pitiless. Scored by Vox for ...

5. Catalonia: People’s power wins out as Spanish state plots revenge

   stations. This was a World War II Resistance-style operation, involving storing the boxes on the other side ... involved veterans of the Civil War — men and women at least 95-years-old who had survived horrors like the ... 1 referendum on independence shows it is: all you need is a mobilised people with a clear view of where they ...

6. After Catalan independence movement wins elections, Spanish state prepares new showdown

   untrustworthy. Caught in its war with the upstart Citizens, PP aggression has been intensifying on all fronts. ... women in uniform were alert and ready to defend the unity of their country. On January 8, PP general ... National liberation Democracy Elections Dick Nichols Barcelona The main war aim of the People’s ...

7. Spain: Two-party system in trouble

   women’s right to abortion and make religious instruction a school subject on the same level as ... success of these initial moves, the Aznar strategy could then advance on further war aims ― aggression ... during a television interview on May 21 that he was ready again to serve his country. “I will act in ...

8. ‘Our House, Your House’: behind Barcelona’s huge march for refugees

   Hundreds of thousands of people overflowed the streets of central Barcelona on February 20 in the largest ... Mediterranean trying to reach Europe last year alone.  But they were also a call on the Spanish government. The ... be able to move off. It was a demonstration, broadcast live on public TV, in which nearly all parts ...

9. Barcelona marks 75th anniversary of International Brigades against fascism

   and children displaced into Catalonia by the war. Three other club members fought on the Republican ... on bicycles, those white-legged very English-looking people pedalling through the hectic Barcelona ... words “¡No Pasarán!” embroidered on their sleeves? They were 12 members of the Clarion Club, one of ...

10. After congress win, Podemos’s Iglesias promises ‘return to the streets’

    (41.57% as against 39.12% for Errejon’s). However, just six weeks later, in the vote on the four congress ... Anti-capitalists-sponsored “Podemos in Motion”, whose highest result was 11.63%. However, the joint document on gender ... Podemos. The bulk of that grey matter is with me on the Recover The Dream ticket: at the same time an ...

11. Denmark: Red-Green Alliance triples vote as right thrown out

    women prime minister-- not so much because of their own performance. Rather it was because of the ... despite economic stagnation and participation in the wars in Afghanistan and Libya, increased their ... campaigned strongly on the traditional SPP themes of defence and extension of the Danish welfare state. In ...

12. Basque Country: Left nationalists rising

    a progressive income tax, a wealth tax, higher company tax, an inheritance tax and a war on tax evasion (already ... daily settings”. The anti-nationalist media have portrayed this as involving a war on Castilian ... Basque politics, its lead candidate was a woman and its candidates 50% men and 50% women. Campaign ...

13. France: Huge march blasts austerity, demands democratic renewal

    dividends); expansion of citizens’ marches across regional France on June 1-2; a June 9 women’s march against ... a French Socialist Party (PS) government took place in Paris on May 5. To the stirring sounds of the ... protest anthem “On Lache Rien” (“We Don’t Give In”), up to 180,000 workers, pensioners, unemployed and ...

14. Germany: Die Linke's road to an anti-capitalist program

    job now, he half-joked, “is to make it intelligible to the women on the check-out counters — our ... Socialism Economy Dick Nichols Late on October 23, the culminating vote of the program congress of ... and 12 abstentions. Die Linke has operated since 2007 on the basis of the “programmatic key points” ...

15. Greece eyewitness: SYRIZA pushes rapid changes

    Dick Nichols SYRIZA Athens There were scenes of joy on the streets of Athens on the night of January 25 ... “Greece advances with hope, with dignity and steady steps towards a changing Europe.” SYRIZA ran on ... a platform of rejecting the catastrophic austerity measures imposed on Greece that caused a deep social ...

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