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The left that no longer works. Ideas to get back on track.

48 min read JUAN TORRES

JUAN TORRES
The recent indictment of former socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is riddled with accusations without evidence and based on unproven presumptions, but it cannot be denied that it is part of a very long trail of frustrations and disappointments produced by left-wing leaders in almost the entire world.

Even if his complete innocence were proven tomorrow on all the charges against him, we couldn't help but wonder what someone who presents himself as a moral reference point for the left was doing among commission agents, corrupt officials, and traitors, and what need he has to dedicate himself to making money on the always subtle border between right and wrong when, at the same time, he gives speeches as a champion of equality, transparency, and social justice.

Juan Torres: Economics has become the biggest intellectual fraud in history

8 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
We live in times when we constantly hear alarmist voices from the left about the rise of the far right, or even fascism. We see leaders fervently defending neoliberal economic policies, from Milei with his chainsaw to Trump with his tariffs. Therefore, finding a book that attempts to analyze this rigorously, without merely scratching the surface, is a welcome relief.

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Spain: Laws to protect those who break the law

5 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
The paradox of some supposedly progressive measures by the Spanish government is that they are designed to guarantee rights even if you have previously, personally, broken the law. Let me explain. If a vulnerable family approaches social services or registers on public waiting lists for social housing, it would take years to obtain it, and they would probably never be offered it. Their constitutional right to housing would not be fulfilled.

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Mariano Sánchez Soler: "The corruption of Franco's regime has barely been investigated."

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Mariano Sánchez Soler is a Spanish journalist, writer, and historian. He is known for being the author of several seminal studies on the Franco regime and the ultraconservative legacies of Spanish democracy. He has just published *La familia Franco SA* (Editorial Roca, 2025). We spoke with him about the business dealings and secrets of the longest-lasting dictatorship of the 20th century in the West.

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Sevim Dagdelen: The EU and NATO's massive rearmament plans have nothing to do with defense

11 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
Sevim Dagdelen, a former German Bundestag member and spokesperson for international affairs for the parliamentary group of Sahra Wagenkecht's party (BSW), has been in Spain (Madrid and Valencia) presenting her book "NATO: A Reckoning with the Alliance of Values," published in Spain earlier this year. Previously, she was the leader of the Left Party's Foreign Affairs, Defense, Interior, and Economic Committees.

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Side…. which side?

5 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The barrage of criticism surrounding Pedro Sánchez's recent trip to China has been surprising. They say it's not "our side," that "there's more to Asia" than China (although the mission also included Vietnam), that the timing couldn't have been worse... However, the trip was a complete success, both in terms of the current situation and the expectations it met, judging by the official assessment provided by Moncloa.

And which side are we on? That of Mr. "Neckcutter," who assigns unavoidable duties to Minister Cuerpo? Or that of Robert Palladino, chargé d'affaires of the US Embassy in Hungary, who has warned the Hungarian government to refrain from attracting Chinese investment?

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China on Pedro Sánchez's radar

5 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is traveling to China again to meet with President Xi Jinping. This is his third visit in the last three years, a truly unusual development and a true reflection of the importance that the Spanish government places on its relationship with China, as an expression of a significant rebalancing of Spanish foreign policy based on the strategic interest of strengthening economic and diplomatic relations with Beijing.

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Spain and China, a linchpin for dialogue

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XULIO RIOS
The visit of Spanish President Pedro Sánchez to China has enabled two important observations. First, that the harmony between both parties persists and that it is revealed as a political capital of great relevance to face common challenges. And second, that both governments are working together to promote dialogue as the main mechanism to find negotiated solutions to tariff tensions with the EU.

View of the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve. Photo: Txema García Paredes

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Guggenheim: the Altri of Urdaibai

7 min read Txema Garcia Paredes 0 comments

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From Palas de Rei (Lugo) to Murueta (Bizkaia) there are 581 kilometres by road. However, all this distance is reduced to nothing if we consider that their destinations are linked by a full-blown embezzlement, if someone or something does not remedy it beforehand.

Both are candidates to win a macabre lottery with different signs. These are two megaprojects with the same formula of stealing from citizens based on “public-private” collaboration, a euphemism that consists of giving away public money to economic and business elites eager to make a fortune.

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Morocco tries to “bypass” the UN in Western Sahara with the help of the West

5 min read RICARD GONZALEZ 0 comments

RICARD GONZALEZ
In recent years, Morocco has succeeded in getting several Western powers to change their position on the Western Sahara conflict to align themselves with Rabat's theses, albeit to varying degrees. The first was the United States under Donald Trump, and the last was France under Macron, both of which have gone furthest in recognising Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara.

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Ana Miranda: the EPP MEPs have washed the face of the extreme right

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Ana Miranda is a Galician jurist and politician. She has been a deputy of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) in the European Parliament in the last legislature and is running again on the Ahora Repúblicas list for the elections that will renew it next Sunday. In 2019, this coalition - now made up of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), EH Bildu, BNG and Aramés - won three seats. We spoke with her about the main challenges facing Europe and the worrying rise of the extreme right.

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On Chinese threats and American friends

4 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
As things stand with the new panorama announced on April 18, the American company Chevron is the only one that is granted permission to market, leaving the Spanish Repsol, the Italian Eni and the Spanish company out of the market and under threat of sanction. the French Maurel/Prom, all of them in commercial negotiations with PDVSA.

With the alibi of pressuring the Venezuelan government to be more democratic on the eve of its presidential elections on July 18, the “American friend” whom it truly sanctions is the European oil companies, which it prevents from marketing its oil.