The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
Pablo Iglesias
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Spain's New Left-Wing Socialist Government Offers Hope in Dark Political Times
In electing a socialist coalition, Spain is countering the politics of nationalism and populism that has been rising across Europe.
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Spain Elections: Conservatives Win but Podemos Captures One-Fifth of National vote
Spain was plunged into the political unknown on Sunday night as no single party emerged as the winner in its closest general election since the end of the Franco dictatorship 40 years ago.
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“Yes We Can!" From Spain to Britain to America, a Revitalized Left Is Emerging
What began in Zuccotti Park and then spread across North America was a major contributor to the Bernie Sanders phenomenon that has forced leftwing ideas into the U.S. political conversation for the first time in decades.
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Spain to the Polls: Moving Away from Its Radical Platform, Podemos Has Lost Support
With national elections looming Sunday, descriptions of the party as the "best of a bad bunch" have become more common — especially among the country's vibrant citizen movements.
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How Podemos Works: The Party Born from Spain's Indignados Holds Great Lessons for U.S.
Since it's the takeover of our democratic process by big money that makes most Americans angry, Podemos is a story from which Americans could take heart.
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Spain's Electoral Rebellion: Welcome to the Post-Party Political Era, Part II
If the M15-Indignados movement inaugurated a new social grammar in Spain, last month's municipal election victories created a new political ecosystem – signaling transformational shifts that have upended the old order.
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Spain's Electoral Rebellion: Welcome to the Post-Party Political Era, Part I
From Madrid and Barcelona to Zaragoza, A Coruña, Cádiz and other major Spanish cities, government is now in the hands of independent citizen fronts called “confluences” – revealing a seismic shakeup in European politics.
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Six Lessons for the U.S. from Spain’s Democratic Revolution
I traveled to Barcelona and Madrid last month to witness the historic elections firsthand, and to learn from Spain’s independent social movements – and what I saw was a whole new way of doing politics.
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Anti-Poverty Activist Becomes Barcelona Mayor As Indignados Surge to Power
Spain’s 15-M Movement made the move from city squares to the halls of power on Sunday in municipal and regional elections that saw the ruling People’s party battered at the ballot box.
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The Podemos Revolution: How A Small Group Of Radical Academics Changed European Politics
Just 15 months after it was founded, Podemos now leads the polls in Spain – now can the grassroots party actually win power and, along with Greece, help transform the continent?
