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Austerity or Raising the Minimum Wage: Catarina Martins on Portugal's Experience

Catarina Martins, Denys Pilash — 2025-03-09T07:59:22Z

Catarina Martins was the national coordinator of the Left Block, a democratic socialist political party in Portugal, from 2012 until 2023. She was elected a Member of the European Parliament in the 2024 European election and sits in the Left group in the European Parliament — GUE/NGL. Catariana has a training in linguistics and a theatre occupation.

- Features / Portugal, Ukraine, Debt

‘Russia will only negotiate if it suffers some defeats'

Denys Pilash — 2022-11-07T10:22:29Z

“Ukrainians are very conscious of what they are doing: they understand that this is an existential threat to their families, their friends, their community and their country.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / Russia, Ukraine

Support Ukrainian Resistance and Disempower Fossil Capital

2022-09-16T10:22:53Z

“Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime's war.”

- 2022 - Ukraine / Russia, Ecology and the Environment, Ukraine, NATO, Ukraine debate

‘We need a peoples' solidarity with Ukraine and against war, not the fake solidarity of governments'

Denys Gorbach, Denys Pilash, Nick Buxton, Shaun Matsheza — 2022-03-14T08:51:21Z

“I think these sad circumstances show that it is high time to build a practical solidarity that is anti-capitalist, anti climate change and anti militarist. We need concretely to join these three agendas in a movement that can rise today against the war, as well as against imperialism that is destroying our planet.”

- IV566 - March 2022 / Ukraine