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The Summer ‘Uni', a barricade against the political right and social demobilisation

Manuel Garí — 2024-09-19T11:26:01Z

The last days of August saw the 14th edition of the Summer University of Anticapitalistas with the slogan ‘A new internationalism in the face of war and climate barbarism' with the just over 750 people attending. This year there was a significant increase in the number of young people as a result of the work to establish the student movement, the role played in promoting solidarity with Palestine and the intervention around the queer question.

- News from around the world / Spanish state, Fourth International

The Political Labyrinth and the Crossroads of the Left in the Spanish State

Manuel Garí — 2023-12-07T11:03:44Z

“Once again, in the Spanish labyrinth, class contradictions and positions and identities around the national question are intertwined. The best way to confront the reactionary right and pro-business progressivism is to generate a dynamic of autonomous mobilization, which lays the foundations for a reconstruction of an independent political field from the working class and the oppressed.”

- IV587 - December 2023 / Spanish state

Political labyrinth in Spanish state

Manuel Garí — 2023-11-15T19:21:52Z

“Once again, in the Spanish labyrinth, class contradictions and positions and identities on the national question are intertwined.”

- IV586 - November 2023 / Spanish state

Cuban dilemmas, socialist debates

Manuel Garí — 2021-08-18T07:45:22Z

“The deepening of democracy is not a threat to the revolutionary process and socialist project. On the contrary, it is a necessary pre-condition for their fulfillment where true emancipation is the goal.”

- IV559 - August 2021 / Cuba

The Rise and Fall of Podemos: Reasons for a Farewell

Manuel Garí — 2020-09-16T17:33:02Z

The creation of Podemos in the Spanish state represented a significant attempt to build a mass, anti-neoliberal, and pluralistic party to the left of social liberalism. That experiment, which began very well, ultimately ended very badly. Perhaps for this reason, the title of this article could have been “The Rise and Fall of Podemos… as an Emancipatory Political Project.” The aim of this article is to explain why it was necessary to create Podemos and why it has been necessary to abandon it.

- Building new parties of the left / Spanish state, New parties of the left, Debate section

European Union: economic response to health crisis is a new disappointment

Fernando Luengo, Manuel Garí — 2020-04-25T22:27:07Z

The response of European community institutions has come late, after several weeks of uncontrollable advance of the coronavirus disease, the palpable (and irresponsible) uncoordinated action of governments and the confirmation of the start of an economic recession that, although already likely before Covid19, is now already an obvious fact. And this at a time when we can say that, more than ever, international cooperation is needed to ward off the dangers of a global crisis of a still unknown scope.

- IV543 - April 2020 / European Union, Covid-19 Pandemic

José Maria Galante “Chato” - the tenacity of the rebel

Manuel Garí — 2020-04-01T19:31:09Z

José Maria Galante was born in Madrid on 27 April 1948, died from Covid-19 during the night of 28-29 March 2020.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Spanish state, Obituary, Fourth International

Windows, balconies and terraces for the public health service

Manuel Garí — 2020-04-01T07:32:39Z

After the success of the popular initiative to “reunite” local neighbourhoods through singing from the windows of houses in many Italian streets and cities, the proposal arose in different networks in the Spanish state to supportively applaud health professionals, fighters in the front line against the corona virus Covid19. Immediately proposals arose to extend this to all those who work in that front and in care work, whatever their role, at the same time that slogans in support of public health and against cuts were raised. In parallel, through informal networks and by more conventional means in Portugal, a similar initiative arose that could be summarized in the motto “Todos somos SNS” (“We are all SNS” - the initials of the country's national health system, also at risk). In both countries the initiative has been a success.

- IV543 - April 2020 / Spanish state, Covid-19 Pandemic

Capitalist crisis, “deglobalization,” and the Left's challenges

Manuel Garí — 2020-02-05T09:42:43Z

At the time of this speech, the new “progressive” government of the Socialist Party and Unidas Podemos had not yet won a parliamentary mandate. But Manuel GarÃ, who along with Anticapitalistas, was a founding member of Podemos in 2014, had a number of pointed criticisms of Podemos' trajectory as well as analyses of the new government's likely direction.

- IV541 - February 2020 / Greece, Spanish state, European Union

The Left Bloc 20 years on

Josu Egireun, Manuel Garí — 2019-04-25T03:38:34Z

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the foundation in Portugal of the Bloco de Esquerda (BE – Left Bloc), which was created as a unique political movement and not as a unified political party or as a coalition. Its constitution and evolution, for those of us who have closely followed this experience with interest and passion from other political contexts, is paradigmatic. A unique experience that is not free of paradoxes, challenges and risks. A revolutionary left that does not want to limit itself to a testimonial practice and self-affirmation has to reflect on these.

- IV531 - April 2019 / Portugal, New parties of the left