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)
- Portugal: Deadly forest fires
- Government proceeds with the automatic regularisation of migrants and refugees with pending residency applications
- 2021 Portuguese State Budget: Bloco de Esquerda will vote against the document
- Democracy against financial colonialism
- Bloco promises to be “the most combative opposition to the right”
- Against the unacceptable burden of the debt, the condition of democracy is social struggle
- Precarious generation on the march
- The IMF-EFSF and the answer from the Left
- Presidential elections marked by the pandemic crisis and the aggressiveness of the ultraright
- Political resolution of the national leadership of the Left Bloc
Authors
- Guney I??kara, Alp Kayserilio?lu, & Max Zirngast
- Hany Hanna
- Hélène Adam
- Hoda Ahmed
- Irene García Galán
- Irina Zherebkina
- Isidro López
- István Mészáros
- J.D. and Z.R.
- Janice Cox and Michael Gasser
- Jonah ben Avraham
- Jorge Gantiva Silva
- Justa Montero
- Justus Links
- K Govindan
- Kate Bradley
- Khaled Abdul Rahman
- Krithika Varagur
- Lakhdar Ghettas
- LCR-SAP secretariat
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