Pedro Passos Coelho, the centre-right prime minister who lost his parliamentary majority in Portugal’s inconclusive general election three weeks ago, has been appointed to form what could be a shortlived…
Brussels faces a second anti-austerity revolt as the Portuguese Left tears up the script and demands the right to govern Source: Defiant Portugal shatters the eurozone’s political complacency – Telegraph…
The center-right coalition, whose reform zeal won Berlin’s admiration, looks short of an outright majority. Source: Portugal’s austerity government wins – POLITICO Filed under: Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, elections, Europe,…
An interesting array of candidates for prime minister. Source: 9 faces to watch in Portugal’s election – POLITICO Filed under: Austerity, Europe, Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Portugal
by Arturo Puente – On 27 September Catalonia is holding elections that will be pivotal in determining whether a territory in which 7.5 million people live will remain part of…
By Hugo Coelho for the New Statesman – Antonia Costa’s socialists face an unpalatable choice: grand coalition with the right, or cohabitation with die-hard communists on the left. Source: In…
This was initially meant to be a lengthy Facebook post for those who look to me for information on complex matters (which I do happily, by request). However, it received…
Photo by David Holt Jeremy Corbyn has been a member of the House of Commons since 1983 and has a long history of voting against his Labor Party, which had…
Photo by Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina Jose Ignacio Torreblanca remembered the moment when some of his university colleagues in Spain started to mobilize politically. It was 2014…
Photo from Public Domain To all member and observer parties of the European Left To all fraternal and friendly left and progressive parties Dear comrades and friends, In 20 August,…
PHOTOS: The Za’atari camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Below: International studies scholar Vijay Prashad; former Conservative Senator Hugh Segal. On Labour Day 2015, the world’s attention is focused on…
PHOTOS: Refugees from the Syrian civil war clog a road near the Syria-Iraq border. (UNHCR photo.) Below: Saskatchewan Conservative MP Kelly Block’s constituency leaflet; Ms. Block herself; Immigration Minister Chris…
This caricature of Alexis Tsipras was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo by Olaf Kosinsky available via Wikimedia. The body was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from…
Swapping one mirage for another: the Left’s turn away from social Europe. Filed under: Europe, Eurozone crisis Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis
Photo by Olaf Kosinsky The following statement was published last week by Nicole Gohlke and Janine Wissler, two radical MPs in Germany’s Die Linke (The Left Party) associated with one…
Illustration by DonkeyHotey On 5 July 2015, by a referendum initiated by the government of Alexis Tsipras and the Hellenic Parliament, the Greek people overwhelmingly rejected the austerity measures imposed…
Illustration by Carlos ZGZ In the face of being excluded from desperately needed funds and the threat of being kicked out of the European Union, the Greek parliament has now…
Photo by Mstyslav Chernov Background of the Ukraine-NATO issue To understand why and how the situation in Ukraine has come to what it is, it’s necessary to go back to…
Photo by Sharon Mollerus As against those on the international left so keen to put the boot in against the Syriza government with the charge that they had abjectly capitulated…
Poland’s man in Brussels, President of the European Council Donald Tusk, has truly settled into his shoes as a new member of the European elite. On Tuesday, he issued the…
