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The transformation of Syriza

8 min read RICARD GONZALEZ

RICARD GONZALEZ
In 2014, a new era began in Greek politics that seemed to bode well for the rest of the continent. Syriza, a confluence of movements and parties of the alternative left, had clearly won the elections with an anti-austerity program in the midst of the financial crisis, while the historic party of the Greek left, PASOK, collapsed, obtaining only 6% of the vote. the votes.

A decade later, that new era has turned out to be more of a mirage, and both Syriza and the entire Greek left face a journey through the desert.

Student camp for Palestine in the Complutense University City in Madrid. Photo: Jayro Sánchez

"We will stay here as long as it takes"

9 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Several hundred students from Madrid universities have been camping for Palestine in the Complutense for weeks. They take turns taking their exams and also receive support from several teachers. They assure that they plan to stay there as long as necessary.

The camps, started on US campuses, have spread throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. They are the largest global student protest of the 21st century.

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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.

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Luis Gonzalo Segura: analyzing the war in Ukraine independently has a very high cost

10 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Luis Gonzalo Segura is a former lieutenant in the Spanish Army. He was expelled from the Armed Forces for denouncing his corruption publicly in 2015. He is now a writer and collaborates in various media outlets. In his latest book, The Ukrainian Trap (Akal, 2023), he presents the key events of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine since 2014. We spoke with him about the war and the latest events.

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The judicial farce against Julian Assange

8 min read FABIAN SCHEIDLER 0 comments

FABIAN SCHEIDLER
If the US authorities manage to convict a journalist for exposing war crimes, this would have another serious consequence. In the future, it would be even more difficult and dangerous to expose the sordid reality of wars, especially those wars that Western governments like to sell as civilizing missions with the help of embedded journalists. If we don't know the truth about these wars, it will be much easier to fight them.

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Gestures of complicity between Spain and China with a European perspective

5 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The recent visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, to Spain has left important messages. The first, the outstretched hand, the willingness to continue promoting bilateral cooperation at all levels. For Beijing, Spain continues to be a “good and reliable partner.” The absence of conflict is a notable characteristic of Spanish-Chinese relations.

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The data that shows who is winning the Ukrainian war two years later

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
Two years after the start of the Ukrainian war, we will hear all kinds of versions about who is winning the war. Some will say that Ukraine is winning because Russia has not fulfilled its dream of taking kyiv in a few weeks, as it intended at the beginning. Others will say that it is Russia that, little by little, is triumphing because Western sanctions have proven useless, military support from the United States is running out and the advances on the front in recent months are from the Russian army in the face of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. that showed itself to be a failure. But I will be the one to tell you who is really winning the war: the arms industry.

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Rwanda, the new Fachoda complex between France and Great Britain

8 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
The main European states that colonized Africa, France and Great Britain, still want to maintain some kind of influence on the continent. The former has sheltered for decades several Rwandan war criminals involved in the genocide against Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994, and the latter maintains good relations with President Kagame despite the fact that his regime has been repeatedly accused of not respecting human rights.

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ICJ could order Israel to immediately suspend its military operation against Gaza

13 min read MARJORIE COHN 3 comments

MARJORIE COHN
The interim measures South Africa is seeking include ordering Israel to “immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza” and to cease and desist from killing and causing serious physical or mental harm to Palestinians, from inflicting on them conditions of life designed to destroy them in whole or in part, and from imposing measures to prevent Palestinian births. These measures can be issued expeditiously.

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COP28, a “tragedy for the planet”

7 min read DAVID SPRATT and IAN DUNLOP 1 comment

DAVID SPRATT AND IAN DUNLOP
Up to 100.000 people - most of whom derive their professional status and income from politics, defense and climate-related businesses - flew to Dubai to attend COP28, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention United Nations on Climate Change. And the result? An unmitigated disaster.

In the final session, a weak and incoherent compromise resolution between oil-producing countries and smaller states and climate advocates – which did not call for phasing out fossil fuels – was accepted without dissent.

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A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Sahra Wagenknecht

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
The fact that there is a split on the left is nothing exceptional, what is new about this is that the exit is to the left, led by such charismatic politicians as the deputy Sahra Wagenknecht (she was vice president of the party and is the wife of the historic leftist leader Oskar Lafontaine) and the polls give him a voting intention of up to 14%, which would mean fourth place, only behind the Christian Democrats of the CDU, the ultras of the AfD and hot on the heels of the Social Democrats of the SPD.

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Kenya: the Commonwealth's spearhead in Africa

9 min read DAVID SOLER CRESPO

DAVID SOLER CRESPO
Nairobi
Now, Africa is more important than ever. While in the Caribbean countries like Barbados have taken the step of becoming a republic in 2021 and after the death of Elizabeth II others like Jamaica or Australia are considering doing the same and even leaving the organization, on the African continent the opposite is true.

It is no longer just the former British colonies that want to join, but also other French-speaking countries that are turning to this association, tired of their relations with their former colonial power.