Chile: The student return to politics | by Carlos Torres

Chile: The student return to politics | by Carlos Torres

2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab spring, Spain’s indignados and Occupy Wall Street and the thousands of other social mobilisations which coalesced around the dissatisfaction with the multiple crises of capitalism. A social model that incessantly and...
Spain: After austerity, the rescue? | by Sofia Tipaldou

Spain: After austerity, the rescue? | by Sofia Tipaldou

The pain in Spain is falling mainly on the poor, says Sofia Tipaldou, but they are resisting on a wholly new scale It’s  happened again. Now it is Spain’s turn to get rescued. After half a year of austerity from the ruling centre-right party, Partido Popular (PP), the...