Bloco de Esquerda
Bloco de Esquerda is a radical left political party in Portugal formed in 2000 as a coalition of the formerly Maoist UDP; Politica XX1, a current that had left the Communist Party; and the PSR, Portuguese section of the Fourth International. Today it is a recognised political party with elected representatives in the national and European parliaments.
Articles by this author (10)
- Democracy against financial colonialism
- Precarious generation on the march
- Bloco promises to be “the most combative opposition to the right”
- The IMF-EFSF and the answer from the Left
- Government proceeds with the automatic regularisation of migrants and refugees with pending residency applications
- Presidential elections marked by the pandemic crisis and the aggressiveness of the ultraright
- Portugal: Deadly forest fires
- Against the unacceptable burden of the debt, the condition of democracy is social struggle
- 2021 Portuguese State Budget: Bloco de Esquerda will vote against the document
- Political resolution of the national leadership of the Left Bloc
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- Kim D. Hunter
- Mariana Carneiro
- Mary N. Taylor
- Omar Karmi
- Peter Saxtrup Nielsen
- Vinayak Chaturvedi
- Yasemin Dildar
- Abdessalem Hidouri
- Abir Mestiri and Khalil Amor
- Adam Shils
- Adel Abderezak
- Adela Gjorgjioska
- Aislinn Pulley
- Alex de Jong
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