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WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe
 
Spain

     

5 July 2008
Spain: Prime Minister Zapatero lashes out at European Central Bank

Spain: Popular Party right-wing rejects "turn to the centre"

20 June 2008
Spain: The Popular Party begins to fracture

28 April 2008
Spain's "water wars": A scramble for essential resources

21 April 2008
Housing slump hits Spain

12 March 2008
Spain: Socialist Party wins a second term in government

8 March 2008
Political instability and social struggles will follow Spain's general election

6 March 2008
Spain: United Left splits as it lurches further right

27 February 2008
Kosovo independence fuels regionalist divisions in Spain

20 February 2008
Spain: Government tries to ban Basque separatist parties from election

12 February 2008
Spanish economy dominates election

6 January 2008
Spain: Catholic Church renews offensive against abortion rights

5 January 2008
Spain: Socialist Party capitulates to right wing anti-abortionists

8 December 2007
Spain: 16-year-old murdered by fascist

6 December 2007
Royal visit revives tensions between Spain and Morocco

21 Novembre 2007
New law condemning Franco's crimes further polarises Spain

7 Novembre 2007
Madrid bombing convictions despite flimsy evidence
Informant gave advance warning to Civil Guard

25 October 2007
Spain: Arrests of Batasuna leadership by Socialist Party ahead of elections

6 October 2007
Recycling Stalinist lies about the Spanish Civil War
El Escudo de la Republica by Angel Viñas

2 October 2007
Spain: Revelations of obscene wealth inherited by former dictator Franco's family

28 August 2007
Scientists warn Spain could see mass spread of deserts

8 August 2007
Delphi's exit from Spain to be followed by other relocations

6 August 2007
Catholic Church to construct monument to clergy killed during Spanish Civil War

10 July 2007
Spain: ETA ceasefire collapses as Zapatero government seeks unity with Popular Party

14 June 2007
Spanish property boom ends amidst share panic

31 May 2007
Spain: Socialist Party government and unions sell out struggle against Delphi plant closure

11 April 2007
An exchange on the Spanish Civil War: Socialism or a bourgeois republic?

27 March 2007
Spanish Judge calls for architects of Iraq invasion to be tried for war crimes

24 March 2007
The Madrid bombing trial: what has been revealed so far

16 March 2007
Eric Hobsbawm on the Spanish Civil War: an anti-historical tirade

4 January 2007
Thousands of African migrants drown trying to reach Europe

11 December 2006
Introductory remarks by World Socialist Web Site correspondent at Madrid congress on Spanish Civil War

4 December 2006
Congress held in Madrid on 70th anniversary of Spanish Civil War

Spain: Socialist Party government betrays victims of Franco's dictatorship

1 December 2006
Spain: Amnesty International details abuse of migrants

24 November 2006
WSWS correspondent to address international conference on the Spanish Civil War

18 November 2006
Spain: Popular Party attempts to wreck ETA ceasefire

9 November 2006
Right-wing Popular Party attacks Spain's leading judge

31 October 2006
Tense takeover battle for Spain's Endesa energy company

30 October 2006
Spanish protests demand affordable housing

26 October 2006
Spain: new capitulation by the Socialist Party to the Catholic Church

17 October 2006
Marbella construction scandal exposes endemic criminality of Spanish capitalism

13 October 2006
Spain: Government seeks European clampdown on Canary Islands boat people

12 October 2006
Play on Lorca staged in Madrid in face of right-wing protests

19 September 2006
Construction slowdown threatens Spain's economic boom

11 September 2006
Spain: "Law of historical memory" continues cover-up of Franco's crimes

30 August 2006
Spain: A decade of economic boom and stagnant wages

26 August 2006
Spain defies European Commission on energy company sell-off

1 August 2006
The Pope and the Catholic Church mobilise against the Spanish government

31 July 2006
Spanish train line reopens before investigation into fatal accident begins

27 July 2006
Spain: Life savings at risk over stamp fraud

12 July 2006
Spain: Unions agree to anti-working class labour reforms

19 June 2006
Amnesty report criticises Spain over human rights

3 June 2006
Spain: High-ranking police officers imprisoned for "illegal arrest" of right-wing Popular Party activists

2 May 2006
Energy policies bringing Spain into conflict with European Commission

18 April 2006
The ETA ceasefire, the Catalan Statute and the fracturing of Spain--Part 2

17 April 2006
The ETA ceasefire, the Catalan Statute and the fracturing of Spain--Part 1

28 March 2006
Spain: Bomb threats and funding cuts follow theatre show

16 March 2006
Seventy years since the Spanish Civil War
Right wing attempts to rehabilitate Franco--Part Three

14 March 2006
Seventy years since the Spanish Civil War Right wing in Spain attempts to rehabilitate Franco--Part Two

13 March 2006
Seventy years since the Spanish Civil War
Right wing in Spain attempts to rehabilitate Franco--Part One

22 February 2006
Spain: 1981 coup leader accuses Socialist Party government of national betrayal

4 February 2006
Spain: Ban on Basque separatist party extended

16 January 2006
Spain: General calls for military intervention over Catalonia

28 December 2005
Spain: Auto unions agree redundancies at SEAT

12 December 2005
Spain's largest trial targets Basque separatist ETA

21 November 2005
Spain: labour reforms threaten "winter of discontent"

22 October 2005
Spain: refugees killed, survivors abandoned in Moroccan desert

10 October 2005
Spanish court convicts 18 alleged Al Qaeda members

3 October 2005
Young African workers killed in Spanish enclave

19 September 2005
Catholic Church steps up campaign to oust Spanish government

25 August 2005
Banned Basque demonstration attacked by police

22 August 2005
Spain: Guardia Civil beat farm labourer to death

16 July 2005
Spain: Vatican intensifies campaign against Socialist Party government

12 July 2005
Household debt soars in Spain

5 July 2005
Spain: Popular Party loses control of its heartland

2 July 2005
EU budget debacle leaves Spain isolated

21 June 2005
Basque parliamentary negotiations strengthen regionalism

9 June 2005
Spain's Popular Party seeks to destabilise PSOE government

1 June 2005
Catholic Church calls for extra-parliamentary opposition to Spanish government

19 April 2005
Main Basque nationalist party suffers losses in Spanish regional elections

14 April 2005
Removal of Francoist symbols heightens class tensions in Spain

2 April 2005
Political tensions rise in Spain

8 March 2005
Spain: PSOE government immigration policy aimed at tightening borders

23 February 2005
Spain: record abstention in referendum on European Union constitution

19 February 2005
Vote "no" in Spanish referendum on European Union constitution

22 January 2005
Spain: National talks break down as big business demands offensive on wages

11 January 2005
Spain: Popular Party seeks to destabilise Socialist Party government

29 December 2004
Spain: Madrid Commission confirms conspiracy of lies used to justify Iraq War

10 December 2004
Spain's foreign minister claims Aznar government supported Venezuela coup

4 December 2004
The Madrid bomb inquiry: Aznar continues his lies

3 December 2004
Al Jazeera journalist among 10 jailed in Spain

23 November 2004
Spain seeks to appease Bush

8 November 2004
Accusations of Spanish involvement in coup highlight instability in Guinea

27 October 2004
Spain's draft budget presages escalating social conflict

22 October 2004
Spain pressured to strengthen border with North Africa

20 October 2004
Spain: Socialist Party government moves to rehabilitate Francoite fascists

18 October 2004
More terror arrests in Spain, but still no evidence presented

11 October 2004
Spain: PSOE government promises limited amnesty to immigrants

13 September 2004
Spain: Zapatero tries to control the regions

28 August 2004
Spain: controversy surrounds opening of Garcia Lorca's grave

26 August 2004
Spanish government immigration policy costs migrant lives

24 August 2004
Spanish government discusses extending scope of Anti-Terror Pact

11 August 2004
Spain: Commission of Inquiry into Madrid bombings allows right-wing to regroup

5 August 2004
Spain: bank takeover raises fears of job losses

31 July 2004
Spain seeks to extend its influence in North Africa

24 July 2004
Spain: Socialist Party government to send troops to Afghanistan and Haiti

19 July 2004
Spain: military chiefs replaced over Yak-42 plane crash

6 July 2004
Spain: PSOE government organises a cover-up over March 11 bombings

1 July 2004
Spain accused of planning coup in Equatorial Guinea

16 June 2004
Spain: Zapatero willing to send troops to Haiti

8 June 2004
Spanish visit by Syria's Assad highlights differences between Madrid and Washington

28 May 2004
Spain: Zapatero continues Aznar's anti-democratic measures in regions

25 May 2004
Spain: Socialist Party government attacks free speech

17 May 2004
Spain assumes leading role in Middle East diplomacy

8 May 2004
Spain pulls out Iraq troops ahead of schedule

27 April 2004
Spain attempts to appease the US on Iraq

20 April 2004
Spain: New prime minister says troops to be withdrawn from Iraq

2 April 2004
Spain: Zapatero chooses a business-friendly cabinet

22 March 2004
Hundreds of thousands march in Spain

Spain: protestors discuss Madrid bombings, Aznar's lies, the election aftermath

20 March 2004
Spain: How Aznar's lies paved the way for his defeat

16 March 2004
Spain: Aznar routed as a result of mass anti-war sentiment

13 March 2004
Madrid terror bombings strengthen right wing on eve of Spanish elections

12 March 2004
Terrorist atrocity in Madrid kills at least 192 people

3 March 2004
ETA ceasefire in Catalonia

27 February 2004
Spain: Dozens of casualties after police attack striking shipbuilding workers

26 February 2004
Spanish government rejects Iraqi WMD inquiry

19 February 2004
Spain: Tens of thousands march against Iraq occupation

16 February 2004
Spain: Catalan nationalist sacked after meeting Basque separatists

10 February 2004
Thousands march in Barcelona for legalisation of immigrant workers

31 January 2004
Catalan coalition seeks greater independence from Spain

15 January 2004
Spain: Ex-Army official claims responsibility for killing leading Basque separatist

9 January 2004
Some questions about the hunt for Al Qaeda in Spain

5 January 2004
Spain and Morocco agree to rail tunnel under Gibraltar strait

3 January 2004
Spain: Household poverty increases

20 December 2003
Spain marks 25th anniversary of democratic transition

18 December 2003
Spain: Prime Minister Aznar may face slander charges

12 December 2003
Spain: Catalan election threatens further instability

9 December 2003
Spain: Aznar opposes pullout from Iraq

4 December 2003
Spain: Congress belatedly honours victims of Franco

25 November 2003
Spain: Relatives of military plane crash victims met with official indifference

20 November 2003
Spain: Investigation into death at sea of 36 African migrants

5 November 2003
Spain: Popular Party accused of stealing Madrid election

27 October 2003
Bush's Madrid shakedown nets $13 billion in pledges

Spain: Thousands protest outside Iraq donors' conference

14 October 2003
Spain: Baltasar Garzón--The people's judge as defender of the capitalist state
Part 2

13 October 2003
Spain: Baltasar Garzón--the people's judge as defender of the capitalist state

11 October 2003
Spain: Federico Garcia Lorca's body to be exhumed
Victim of Franco's Falangist militia

2 October 2003
Spain: Thousands demonstrate against Iraq occupation

23 September 2003
Spain: Aznar's Popular Party faces growing criticism over Iraq

20 September 2003
Spain: Aznar names successor and reshuffles government

9 September 2003
Al Jazeera correspondent arrested in Spain

6 September 2003
Spain's worst refinery fire kills six workers

19 August 2003
Spain: ETA bombing campaign aids government offensive against democratic rights

14 August 2003
Spain: Aznar government faces crisis over Iraqi WMD

12 August 2003
Spanish troops in Iraq to wear Christian badge

9 August 2003
Spain: Aznar rejects public inquiry into military plane crash

29 July 2003
Split in Spanish Socialist Party

22 July 2003
Demonstrations greet Spanish government vote to send troops to Iraq

16 July 2003
Spanish judge demands extradition of Argentine officers

15 July 2003
Antiwar song banned from Spanish television

12 July 2003
Spain: Telefonica to slash 15,000 jobs

8 July 2003
Spain: Madrid threatens withdrawal of Basque autonomy

26 June 2003
Spain: Post-election horse-trading exposes rampant corruption

24 June 2003
Spain extends military presence in Iraq

10 June 2003
Spain's governing Peoples Party loses support in close vote

17 May 2003
Spain: Aznar's Popular Party faces electoral rout

8 May 2003
Union leader attacked during May Day demonstration in Spain

1 May 2003
Spanish government plan for drastic punishment of war opponents

11 April 2003
Deaths of two Spanish journalists in Iraq sparks protests

1 April 2003
Spanish government to sue antiwar web site

24 March 2003
A million march in Spain against war
Police fire rubber bullets at demonstrators

1 March 2003
Spain: Mass demonstrations against government's right-wing policies and warmongering

30 November 2002
Thousands of tons of oil pollute Spanish coast

15 November 2002
Spain: Ecuadorean immigrant cleared of murdering her baby

31 October 2002
Spain: Socialist Party demands opening of Franco's mass graves

16 October 2002
Spain: Excavation of Franco's mass graves demanded

16 September 2002
Spain to outlaw Basque nationalist party

17 August 2002
Spanish government moves to ban Basque separatist party

23 July 2002
Spain and Morocco clash over a rock

5 June 2002
Britain and Spain at loggerheads over Gibraltar

13 May 2002
Spanish government moves to ban Basque separatist party

25 March 2002
EU summit in Barcelona: silence over US war plans against Iraq

15 January 2002
Spain: Opposition to universities reform law

1 December 2001
Britain and Spain agree to negotiate constitutional changes in Gibraltar

15 October 2001
Spanish government beats the drums of war

14 May 2001
Basque nationalists win regional elections

7 May 2001
BSE / "Mad Cow Disease" spreading in Spain

29 March 2001
Spanish government imposes labour reforms

10 February 2001
Spanish government honours Franco's fascists

1 February 2001
Spain: Thousands march in support of immigrant hunger strikers

8 January 2001
12 immigrant workers killed at Spanish railway crossing

20 December 2000
Spain imposes new anti-immigrant legislation

13 November 2000
Spanish government clamps down on Basque separatist ETA

1 November 2000
Spanish Prime Minister Aznar spearheads drive to deregulate Europe's economies

3 October 2000
Spain's fuel tax protests met with brutal repression

23 September 2000
Fuel tax protests continue in Spain--nothing settled in rest of Europe

18 September 2000
Fuel tax protests hit Spain

25 August 2000
Basque separatists step up terrorist activities

31 July 2000
Spanish Socialist Party elects "New Way" representative as general secretary

22 July 2000
Spanish government speeds up liberalisation of utilities

21 July 2000
Basque separatist ETA steps up violence

8 July 2000
23 school children die in Spanish coach accident

2 June 2000
Spain and France plan joint offensive against Basque separatist ETA

17 March 2000
Right-wing victory in Spanish general election

29 February 2000
Second ETA bomb kills socialist party leader in Spain

21 February 2000
Spanish left agrees to electoral pact

16 February 2000
Moroccan immigrant workers strike in southern Spain

11 February 2000
Spain: racist violence injures 50 in Almeria

22 January 2000
Basque separatist ETA blamed for explosions in Madrid

17 December 1999
ETA's decision to end cease-fire provokes political crisis in Spain

4 December 1999
Political instability in Catalan region of Spain following election losses for ruling party

8 October 1999
Spain's ex-Socialist Party Prime Minister Gonzalez joins defence of Pinochet

15 September 1999
Pinochet's lawyers seek former dictator's release on grounds of ill health

4 September 1999
Morocco claims Ceuta and Melilla

18 August 1999
Efforts stepped up in Spain to prevent trial of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet

21 July 1999
Xenophobic attacks on North African immigrants in Spain

23 June 1999
European elections seen as prelude to general election in Spain

18 June 1999
"What was being committed there was one the biggest savageries of history."
Spanish pilot says US ordered targeting of civilians in Yugoslavia

2 June 1999
Spain strengthens borders against African refugees

1 May 1999
Yugoslavia war intensifies political tensions in Spain

16 February 1999
Britain and Spain exchange threats over Gibraltar

19 January 1999
Nine months after toxic waste devastated marshlands in southern Spain
World scientists meet to discuss Coto de Doñana disaster

3 November 1998
Spain builds steel wall to keep out immigrants

24 October 1998
Government crisis in Spain over Pinochet arrest

22 October 1998
Death squad inquiry continues to shake Spanish social democrats

7 October 1998
Political crisis deepens in Spain following ETA cease-fire

25 September 1998
Basque separatist ETA offers unconditional cease-fire

28 August 1998
Shouts from the Wall, an exhibit of Spanish Civil War posters: Fascinating artifacts from a momentous struggle, and crude apologetics for Stalinism

8 July 1998
Spain's role as border guard for Fortress Europe

13 May 1998
Toxic waste devastates marshlands in southern Spain

 

Featured Article

13 March 2006
Seventy years since the Spanish Civil War
Right wing in Spain attempts to rehabilitate Franco
Part 1
Part 2 Part 3

20 March 2004
Spain: How Aznar's lies paved the way for his defeat

11 April 2002
George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, Stalinism and the Spanish revolution

3 January 2002
A major exhibition on the Spanish Civil War
"Dreams and Nightmares" -- at the Imperial War Museum, London, until April 28, 2002

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