Spain
Europe faces ever deepening recession
By Chris Marsden, April 28, 2009
The IMF has predicted a deepening recession in Europe, with the euro zone’s economy contracting by 4.2 percent this year, significantly worse than its January forecast of a 2 percent decline.
Spain’s Socialist Party government suppresses torture probe of Bush officials
By Paul Mitchell, April 25, 2009
The Obama administration and Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE) government are working in tandem to prevent the prosecution of top Bush administration officials.
Spain: Police repression against student protests
By Vicky Short, April 22, 2009
The Spanish government of José Luis Zapatero’s Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) is resorting to police repression in an attempt to silence students protesting its education “reforms”.
Spain: Zapatero sacks finance minister
By Paul Stuart, April 18, 2009
In response to mounting criticism over his handling of the economic crisis, Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero carried out a sudden cabinet restructuring.
Spain: Big business demands savage attacks on working class following bank crash
By Paul Stuart, April 4, 2009
Big business leaders in Spain are stepping up their demands for labour reforms in the wake of a regional banks collapse.
Spanish court weighs torture charges against former US officials
By Bill Van Auken, March 31, 2009
A Spanish court is considering criminal charges against former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other top officials in the Bush administration for providing legal justification for torture, an...
Spain: New Anti-Capitalist Left party to contest European elections
By Paul Stuart and Paul Mitchell, March 13, 2009
The United Left faction Alternative Space has set up a new Anti-Capitalist Left party to contest the European elections in June.
Spain: Zapatero government accused of directing anti-immigrant crackdown
By Paul Stuart, March 9, 2009
The PSOE government in Spain is accused of setting police arrest quotas for immigrants. In the working class Madrid district of Vallecas, police were given weekly targets for the arrests.
Spain: Major economic downturn predicted for 2009
By Marcus Morgan, February 20, 2009
The Spanish economy, the fifth largest in Europe, is now sliding into a full-blown recession.
Video: “So many thousands of unknown nameless people”—Franco's mass graves
January 28, 2009
Vicky Short of the World Socialist Web Site interviewed Montserrat Martinez about her campaign to discover the truth about the mass graves that contain the remains of Republicans and leftists killed b...
Spain: Montserrat Martínez and her campaign to discover the truth about Franco’s mass graves
By Paul Mitchell, January 28, 2009
Montserrat Martínez Soler has been at the forefront of the campaign to discover the truth about the mass graves that contain the remains of Republicans and leftists killed by Franco’s forces during...
Spain: The collapse of the investigation into Franco-era crimes
By Paul Bond, December 10, 2008
Spain’s ruling elite is trying to consign the fate of the estimated 300,000 political opponents murdered by the fascists, the 500,000 people they imprisoned and the 500,000 they forced into exile to...
