IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
The Left has a historic opportunity to democratise Spain
The leader of Spanish communists ENRIQUE SANTIAGO tells Ben Chacko how a broad alliance of progressive forces can and must force the PSOE to deliver left policies
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL: Santiago Enrique, general secretary of the Spanish Communist Party (PCE)
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Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
IT ISN’T just in Britain that the balance of power hangs precariously between left and right.
Spain’s Communist Party is — as part of the Unidas Podemos (UP) alliance — entering coalition government with the Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
Though the coalition — the exact make-up of which is still under discussion — would be the first left-wing coalition to rule Spain since the 1930s, last month’s election was hardly a triumph for the left. Both the PSOE and UP lost seats, while the right-wing People’s Party (PP) and fascistic Vox made gains.
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