Josefina L. Martínez
IzquierdaDiario.es
Historiadora | Madrid |
UNITED KINGDOM
To Brexit or Not to Brexit
June 27, 2017 | A year after the Referendum in the UK, Theresa May proposed a hard Brexit. The latest general election results, which boosted the Labour Party’s standing in the parliament can only be interpreted (...)
IDEAS & DEBATES
The Working Class, the Left, and Right-Wing Populism
December 20, 2016 | The election of Donald Trump and the rise of the far right in Europe have rekindled the much-needed debate about the left’s relationship with the working (...)
EUROPEAN LEFT
Syriza and Podemos: A Necessary Balance
August 06, 2016 | Syriza and Podemos emerged in the context of a deep capitalist crisis. However, it has not taken long for both organizations to demonstrate their narrow (...)
EUROPE
Varoufakis’ Plan B for Europe: A democratic revolution without revolution
March 05, 2016 | The conference 'For a Plan B for Europe' culminated in Madrid with the presence of the former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, along with much of the European reformist left. What is (...)
GREECE
INTERVIEW: ‘Tsipras is saving Greek capitalism’
October 08, 2015 | We interviewed Kostas Skordoulis, a leading member of OKDE-Spartakos about the situation in Greece following the elections last September 20, Syriza, Popular Unity, and the debates within (...)
FROM ATHENS
Debates: ‘Greece and Spain are laboratories of the new reformism’
August 12, 2015 | Josefina Martínez's (Clase contra Clase, Spain) contribution at the first summer camp of OKDE-Spartakos in Greece.
GREECE
Tsipras defeats the Left Platform at Syriza’s CC meeting
July 31, 2015 | At a meeting that lasted for 14 hours, Tsipras defeated a motion presented by the Left Platform of Syriza. The Central Committee decided to hold an extraordinary party congress in September, (...)
GREECE
The Eurogroup’s brutal agreement on Greece: A colonialist pact
July 14, 2015 | After 48 hours of meetings, Alexis Tsipras accepted every condition of the Eurogroup in order to reach an agreement. The Greek parliament will approve privatizations, cut backs, and other (...)
GREECE
Tsipras’ concessions and Syriza’s left wing
July 06, 2015 | There is a growing tension between Tsipras and the left platform within SYRIZA due to the negotiations with the Troika. However, Syriza’s “left wing” acts only as formal opposition, while in (...)
SPAIN
Mayor-elect of Madrid claims she “can’t stop the evictions”
June 24, 2015 | The Platform of (Those) Affected by the Mortgage, or, in Spanish, “Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca” (PAH) in Madrid's Vallecas neighborhood questioned the housing policy of Ahora Madrid (...)