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Brazil, COP30 and the extractivist paradox

Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2025-11-16T08:32:26Z

With each passing day, the evidence—not only scientific but also empirical, as seen in [the floods in] Valencia last year—confirms the ecological emergency. Not as a phenomenon of a grim future, but as a present reality. The UN Secretary-General himself, António Guterres, stated that 2024 was "a masterclass in climate destruction." This statement was part of his opening address at the COP29 global climate summit in Baku, exactly one year ago.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment, Climate

Miguel Urbán: "There are still set-ups like the one I suffered. There are police infiltrating social movements."

Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2025-06-21T05:06:33Z

The leader of Anticapitalistas believes that the police plot that sought to implicate him in the alleged sale of 40 kilos of cocaine in 2016 was intended to attack Podemos "at a key moment in the politics of change" and announced, in an interview with elDiario.es, his willingness to take that conspiracy to the courts.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Spanish state

Who sows far right policies ... reaps the far right

Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2024-06-12T14:59:50Z

This Sunday the European elections concluded, electing the deputies who will make up its tenth legislature. It never hurts to remember that these elections are used as the perfect makeup to renew the governance framework of the EU (Parliament and European Commission).

- IV593 - June 2024 / Europe, Far Right, European Union

The Drums of War are Banging in Europe

Éric Toussaint, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Paul Murphy — 2024-06-06T12:11:07Z

These weeks see the end of the term for an ineffectual European legislature which served during the worst pandemic of this century, during Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and with it, the outbreak of a war on European soil that evokes the worst memories of the world wars of the last century. And as we witness the televised genocide of the Palestinian people, it appears that the international system of liberal governance seems to be collapsing like a house of cards.

- IV593 - June 2024 / Europe, European Union

European Union: “One foot in the institutions, a hundred feet in the street”

Hélène Marra, Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2024-05-12T11:24:14Z

“I think that at the moment the main task is not so much to think about elections, but rather to think about how we can rebuild an anti-militarist internationalism that breaks with all imperialisms, that is independent of imperial interests and distant from our empires or competitors, that can have class independence and argues that one of the most important elements at the moment is an ecosocialist anti-militarist policy; to also reflect on the link between the climate crisis and the increase in war and armed conflicts.”

- IV592 - May 2024 / Europe, Spanish state, European Union

Lula won, but Bolsonarism is still very much alive

Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2022-12-04T18:17:10Z

“All these "warnings" should alert us to the capacity of Bolsonarism to ripen the conditions for a new coup d'état in the style of the one carried out against Dilma.”

- IV575 - December 2022 / Brazil

The Vendôme Column and the internationalism of the Commune

Jaime Pastor , Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2021-06-02T08:35:34Z

“A red thread that connects the demolition of the Vendôme column during the Commune and its internationalist idea of a “universal republic” with the anti-racist protests in the streets of half the world. ”

- IV557 - June 2021 / France, Historical events and figures

The red thread of the Commune

Jaime Pastor , Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2021-05-28T08:41:04Z

On the 150th anniversary of the defeat of the Paris Commune we assert that the Commune is not dead, retracing its influence through the workers' and revolutionary movements until today.

- IV556 - May 2021 / France, Historical events and figures

Less flag waving, more rights

Angela Aguilera, Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2021-01-04T08:27:19Z

In June 2016, after a close referendum result, a slim majority of British voters supported leaving the European Union (EU), initiating one of the longest and most complex divorces in our recent continental history. More than four years later with British governments having fallen along the way, several elections, three negotiating extensions applied, and a transition period that culminates this 31 December, Brussels and London finally signed the trade agreement that will govern relations (…)

- IV552 - January 2021 / Britain, Spanish state, European Union

Down with the king!

Jaime Pastor , Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2020-11-22T05:21:25Z

“Reasons to believe that we will continue to advance until we can build a broad movement that makes the slogan “Down with the king!” a proposal for the future.”

- IV550 - November 2020 / Spanish state