Spain

Governments downplay pandemic risk as MV Hondius hantavirus cases mount in US, Europe

Tue, 12 May 2026 03:40:59 GMT

Authorities claim the virus poses a very low risk to the public even as they mention the threat of a pandemic like COVID-19 and transport passengers to top-level biosecurity facilities.

Spain’s Workers’ Revolutionary Current channels anti-war sentiment behind social democrats, pseudo-left parties and union bureaucracy

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:07:58 GMT

The CRT advances the “unity of left” with the trade union bureaucracy to contain and prevent workers from breaking with the pro-war parties of the capitalist state.

Spain’s Socialist Party-Sumar government unveils €1 billion military aid package for Ukraine

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:00:17 GMT

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned that the US-led war against Iran was distracting from NATO’s war against Russia.

Spanish trade unions subordinate anti-war opposition to Sanchez’s Socialist Party government

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:14:22 GMT

The zig zags of the PSOE-Sumar government reflect the imperialist interests of the Spanish bourgeoisie.

Spain sends warships to Cyprus after Trump threatens to cut off US trade unless Madrid joins Iran war

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:06:14 GMT

It is impossible to halt the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran and the rapidly spreading war across the Middle East by relying on the diplomatic initiatives of the European powers.

Spain’s Socialist Party-Sumar government complicit in the US-Israeli attack on Iran

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:52:31 GMT

While publicly invoking “de-escalation and international law,” a posture adopted because this aggression faces mass opposition within the Spanish working class, Prime Minister Sánchez has allowed Spanish territory to be used as a launchpad for the imperialist attack.

Heads of British and German armed forces insist Europe’s population must be made ready for war

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:05:03 GMT

For the working class the generals’ statement must be seen as a declaration of the class war that must be conducted if imperialist war is to be waged—one emanating from the highest echelons of the military.

Trade unions, Catalan regional government work to suppress teachers’ anger after mass strike

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:37:36 GMT

Across Catalonia, the number of demonstrators exceeded 100,000. The total number of teachers in the region is around 90,000, indicating that substantial numbers of students and other Catalan workers supported the teachers.

Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government tries to join in US plans to plunder Venezuela

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:51:58 GMT

There will be no genuine opposition to wars of plunder from a government that is also working to loot Venezuela—whether through sanctions, diplomatic activities, or active complicity with Trump.

Calls mount for rail strike after 42 die in high-speed train crash in Adamuz, Spain

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:23:44 GMT

Initial reports point to a catastrophic infrastructure failure due to poor maintenance amid the rail privatization program overseen by Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)-Sumar government.

Madrid covers up complicity in illegal US invasion of Venezuela

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 04:05:33 GMT

The only way to oppose imperialist wars of plunder is to mobilize the working class, independently of the union bureaucracies and pseudo-left parties in or allied to the Spanish government.

Spanish imperialism at crossroads over Trump’s escalation toward war on Venezuela

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 04:34:20 GMT

As the Trump administration accelerates war preparations against Venezuela, the response of Spanish imperialism has been extraordinarily muted.

Five countries boycott Eurovision Song Contest protesting inclusion of Israel

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:06:51 GMT

It is highly likely that there will be further boycotts of next year’s contest, given that Israel is a global pariah.

Orwell: 2+2=5–Raoul Peck’s film about George Orwell and contemporary events

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 03:51:53 GMT

What is one to make of the events referenced to in 2+2=5, many of them disturbing or even horrifying? And what is to be done about them?

4 construction workers die in Madrid construction site collapse

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:35:31 GMT

On October 7, a building undergoing renovation in central Madrid to be converted into a luxury hotel collapsed, burying and killing four of the workers.

Spanish workers and students stage national stoppages against Gaza genocide

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:33:27 GMT

The national stoppages and protests across Spain, called by major trade union and student federations, confirmed continued opposition to the Gaza genocide despite efforts to proclaim the success of Trump’s “peace deal”. But they were tightly controlled by the union bureaucracy which seeks to dissipate mass opposition into safe channels.

British painter Edward Burra: A neglected chronicler of 20th century society

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:26:59 GMT

Burra’s early work emerged in the wake of revolutionary artistic ferment following the Bolshevik Revolution.

Historic protests in Spain oppose Gaza genocide

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:56:45 GMT

An explosive conflict is emerging between the working class and the capitalist political establishment, including pseudo-left parties complicit in Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Global protests continue over Israel’s seizure of Sumud flotilla

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:09:52 GMT

Millions of people, including one million in Rome alone, took to the streets this weekend in opposition to the genocide against the Palestinians and Israel’s deportation of over 400 flotilla activists after their ships and cargoes were violently seized.

Spain and Italy dispatch warships to Gaza flotilla as Israel considers violent assault

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:01:13 GMT

The deployment of warships aims to deflect popular anger and provide governments that have facilitated genocide for two years with an alibi while the slaughter continues.

The Stalinist counterrevolution during the Spanish Civil War

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:41:36 GMT

The Stalinist counter-revolution during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) crushed one of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionary uprisings, when millions of workers and peasants fought to overthrow capitalism and fascism.

Israel attacks third humanitarian Freedom/Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:51:20 GMT

The Israeli military continues to fire on European citizens and parliamentarians in the Mediterranean, including within the sovereign waters of European countries, with impunity.

Mass pro-Gaza protest blocks final stage of Spanish Vuelta cycling race

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 03:47:01 GMT

The unprecedented cancellation of the final stage of Spain’s Vuelta a España on Sunday has reverberated internationally, underscoring mass opposition to the genocide in Gaza.

Global Sumud Flotilla to set sail from European and Tunisian ports against Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 03:17:20 GMT

On Sunday, over 50 ships carrying humanitarian aid and activists from 44 countries are set to depart from Barcelona, Genoa, Sicily, Greece, and other Mediterranean ports.

Spain’s neo-fascist Vox party launches anti-Muslim campaign

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:09:36 GMT

Exploiting the PSOE-Sumar government’s assault on immigrants and workers, Vox is reviving the most reactionary traditions of the Spanish ruling class.

Romanian farmworker Gheorghe Vranciu dies amid record heat wave in Spain

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 05:17:18 GMT

Vranciu’s death exposes the brutal working conditions facing agricultural labourers, many of them migrants, as heat waves surge due to climate change.

Wildfires fueled by climate change devastate Spain

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:12:38 GMT

Spain's wildfires are not isolated events, but part of a wave of wildfires linked to global warming that is sweeping across southern Europe.

Wildfires hit France, Spain and entire Mediterranean rim of Europe

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:35:22 GMT

The wildfires sweeping the entire Mediterranean rim of Europe are the product of the capitalist nation-state system’s inability—as it plunges into a new world war—to confront the global climate crisis.

Spanish far right intensifies anti-immigrant assaults under PSOE-Sumar government

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 04:30:19 GMT

For two consecutive weekends, fascist groups have mobilized across towns in Spain with the aim of assaulting or lynching immigrants.

Spanish unions impose sellout contract on Cádiz metalworkers strike

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 04:15:28 GMT

The sell-out of the Cádiz strike shows the need for workers to build rank-and-file committees and take their struggles out of the hands of corrupt union bureaucracies linked to Spain's ruling social-democratic and pseudo-left parties.

Spanish unions try to impose new sellout contract on Cádiz metalworkers

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:19:29 GMT

The contract is nothing more than a rehash of the deal the union bureaucracies tried to impose on workers a week ago, and that the rank and file voted down.

Cadiz metalworkers reject Spanish union sellout contract

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:23:38 GMT

Workers marched in protest against a sellout the social-democratic UGT union bureaucracy attempted to impose on them to call off strikes.

Spain’s Socialist Party-Sumar government faces collapse amid corruption scandal, war drive, and rising class struggle

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:17:20 GMT

The scandal engulfing Sánchez’s government is being used not only to settle internal disputes within the political establishment, but to prepare the ground for a realignment aimed at imposing deeper austerity, intensified repression of the working class, and a full-scale turn to militarism.

Tens of thousands at Barcelona music festival cheer Fontaines D.C.: “Free Palestine … Israel is committing genocide”

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:07:48 GMT

These and other expressions of mass global opposition occur as the crimes of the Israeli regime in Gaza, the West Bank and now Iran continue unabated.

26,000 Cádiz metalworkers set to strike in Spain

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:07:24 GMT

A unified struggle would directly threaten the PSOE Sumar government’s militarist agenda, heavily reliant on the metal sector. It would confront a deeply unpopular administration besieged by corruption scandals and mounting working-class resistance to years of austerity and wage erosion.

Trade unions betray Cantabria metalworkers

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:57:01 GMT

Spain’s main trade union federations have betrayed the 22,000 metalworkers in Cantabria by forcing through a sellout deal aimed at preventing a unified national struggle of metalworkers and workers in other sectors, just as the class struggle deepens across the country.

Reject the Cantabria metalworkers’ pre-agreement! Build rank-and-file rebellion against Spanish union bureaucrats’ sellout!

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 04:20:51 GMT

Metalworkers in Spain’s Cantabria region should vote “no” to the sellout pre-agreement imposed by the unions, the employers, and the PSOE–Sumar government, part of a broader confrontation with the capitalist state and its agents in the union bureaucracy.

Spanish metal strike in Cantabria grows, Cádiz workers to strike next week

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 03:06:15 GMT

Cantabria’s metal industry is facing its most powerful strike in recent memory, as thousands of workers continue their strike for a second consecutive day.

22,000 metalworkers strike in northern Spain’s Cantabria region

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:58:35 GMT

Metalworkers in Spain’s Cantabria region are on strike, facing a political struggle not only against employers but also the PSOE-Sumar government and the trade union bureaucracy.

Hundreds of Spanish musicians boycott festivals organised by pro-Zionist hedge fund

Tue, 27 May 2025 01:54:27 GMT

Dozens of bands are withdrawing from festivals financed by investment giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR).

Spain’s Morenoite CRT peddles illusions in protest pressure on imperialism over Gaza genocide

Mon, 26 May 2025 01:13:30 GMT

By claiming imperialist governments can be pressured into halting genocide, the CRT works to tie the working class to the imperialist state and block a movement that can stop the genocide.

50,000 protest in Madrid against Gaza genocide of Palestinians and PSOE-Sumar complicity

Mon, 12 May 2025 03:42:20 GMT

This protest came amid intensifying atrocities in Gaza, where the Israeli government has launched what it calls the “concluding moves” of its military campaign.

Spanish union bureaucracies endorse EU militarization plans

Fri, 09 May 2025 02:16:59 GMT

Their support for the EU’s war drive constitutes a wholesale betrayal of the working class and a damning exposure of their role as enforcers of capitalist rule.

Iberian blackout exposes financial oligarchy’s looting of European energy infrastructure

Sun, 04 May 2025 23:31:05 GMT

Spain's electricity sector is dominated by a handful of major conglomerates that refuse critical security investment and extract tens of billions of euros in profits from the grid.

Massive blackout paralyses Spain and Portugal

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:23:43 GMT

Subway networks, hospitals, airports, traffic lights, ATMs and telecommunications systems were crippled in scenes that brought a 21st-century population back to 19th-century conditions.

Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government to impose unpopular €10 billion military spending hike by decree

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:08:40 GMT

Sánchez plans to impose this increase by decree, bypassing the normal budgetary process, underscoring how militarism and war are inseparable from a drive to dictatorship at home.

Hundreds of thousands march in nationwide protests for right to decent housing in Spain

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:06:28 GMT

The housing protests in Spain came amid mass protests against Trump in the United States and rising protests and calls for strike action across Europe.

After Trump tariffs, Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government hands corporations €14 billion bailout

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:47:48 GMT

The bailout is a sweeping gift to Spain’s largest corporations, as the working class faces an unrelenting cost-of-living crisis, stagnant wages, and spiraling rents.

Hundreds of cultural organisations in Spain speak out against war and Europe’s massive rearmament drive

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 03:59:14 GMT

A broad coalition of Spanish cultural workers has issued a powerful manifesto opposing the European Union’s rearmament programme and denouncing NATO’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Spain’s pseudo-left Sumar feigns opposition to its own government’s rearmament programme

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 03:28:13 GMT

Throughout its year in government with PSOE, Sumar has specialised in striking a few rhetorical poses of dissent while loyally endorsing all key government policies when it counts.