https://znetwork.org/category/place/europe/spain/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:32:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/europe/spain/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-in-over-20-mediterranean-ports-coordinate-action-on-6-february-to-oppose-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-in-over-20-mediterranean-ports-coordinate-action-on-6-february-to-oppose-war/#respond Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:12:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294357 Workers in more than 20 Mediterranean ports are preparing for an international day of action on 6 February to oppose the growing militarization of transport infrastructure, as well as port management’s and governments’ complicity in the genocide in Gaza. “If we don’t take this step, all our other demands will be crushed under war,” Francesco [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-in-over-20-mediterranean-ports-coordinate-action-on-6-february-to-oppose-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-shows-another-immigration-policy-is-possible/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-shows-another-immigration-policy-is-possible/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:56:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294274 The Spanish government has announced a regularization process for immigrants in an irregular administrative situation. It’s a move that could benefit more than five hundred thousand people currently living in Spain without legal status. With this measure, Pedro Sánchez’s broad-left government is swimming against the tide of Europe and the United States. The decision by [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-shows-another-immigration-policy-is-possible/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/striking-spanish-workers-just-showed-that-amazon-is-not-invincible/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/striking-spanish-workers-just-showed-that-amazon-is-not-invincible/#respond Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:31:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293885 The latest flashpoint of resistance to global logistics juggernaut Amazon has proven, once again, that collective worker power can force the company into improving its miserable working conditions. Amazon workers in Murcia, in southeastern Spain, struck twice at the RMU1 fulfillment center during the 2025 holiday “peak” season and forced the company into a negotiated [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/striking-spanish-workers-just-showed-that-amazon-is-not-invincible/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fascism-is-on-the-rise-but-what-about-resistance/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fascism-is-on-the-rise-but-what-about-resistance/#respond Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:47:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292028 Fifty years have passed since the transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain following the death of fascist Francisco Franco. However, the rise of parties based on the fascist legacy, described as “far-right,” in the country’s recent political developments has divided Spanish politics. The rise of the Vox party is considered a threat in Spain. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fascism-is-on-the-rise-but-what-about-resistance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-did-the-peace-process-in-the-basque-country-progress/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-did-the-peace-process-in-the-basque-country-progress/#respond Sun, 16 Nov 2025 15:54:23 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291312 The origins of the Basque issue took shape after the Spanish Civil War. Following roughly three years of conflict between the Republicans and Nationalists, the fascist leader Franco established a dictatorship that lasted from 1939 until his death in 1975, during which various communities in Spain were subjected to repression. One of the most visibly [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-did-the-peace-process-in-the-basque-country-progress/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-solidarity-protests-continue-to-grow-across-europe/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-solidarity-protests-continue-to-grow-across-europe/#respond Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:21:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289650 Mass mobilizations in solidarity with Palestine continue to sweep across Europe, with October 4-5 once again bringing well over a million people to the streets in Spain, Italy, France, Romania, the Netherlands, and other countries. Demonstrations have steadily grown over the past two years, but gained even greater momentum after Israel attacked the Global Sumud [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-solidarity-protests-continue-to-grow-across-europe/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/making-spanish-support-for-palestine-real/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/making-spanish-support-for-palestine-real/#respond Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:00:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289522 Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez has earned the esteem of much international left-leaning opinion thanks to his stance on Palestine, which is among the least bad among all Western governments. But his powerful rhetoric contrasts with his insufficient concrete measures to really act against the genocide in Gaza and other crimes committed by Israel. This [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/making-spanish-support-for-palestine-real/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-joins-italy-in-sending-warship-to-support-gaza-bound-humanitarian-flotilla/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-joins-italy-in-sending-warship-to-support-gaza-bound-humanitarian-flotilla/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289045 Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced that a Spanish warship will set sail tomorrow to accompany the Global Sumud Flotilla of volunteer-crewed humanitarian vessels as they sail to Gaza to try to break Israel’s illegal starvation blockade: The Spanish government demands full respect for international law and for the right of our citizens to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-joins-italy-in-sending-warship-to-support-gaza-bound-humanitarian-flotilla/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-peoples-push-how-grassroots-solidarity-reshaped-spains-foreign-policy-2/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-peoples-push-how-grassroots-solidarity-reshaped-spains-foreign-policy-2/#respond Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:15:13 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288849 In several influential European countries, solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian people is finally translating into action. Though such action may seem belated to the tens of thousands of lives lost in the genocide-stricken Strip, it is, nonetheless, critical for the future of the Palestinian cause. The political shift underway in Europe is a development of strategic [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-peoples-push-how-grassroots-solidarity-reshaped-spains-foreign-policy-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-peoples-push-how-grassroots-solidarity-reshaped-spains-foreign-policy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-peoples-push-how-grassroots-solidarity-reshaped-spains-foreign-policy/#respond Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:38:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288752 In several influential European countries, solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian people is finally translating into action. Though such action may seem belated to the tens of thousands of lives lost in the genocide-stricken Strip, it is, nonetheless, critical for the future of the Palestinian cause.  The political shift underway in Europe is a development [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-peoples-push-how-grassroots-solidarity-reshaped-spains-foreign-policy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-not-apathy-its-strategy-how-young-people-are-reinventing-civil-society/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-not-apathy-its-strategy-how-young-people-are-reinventing-civil-society/#respond Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287316 Far from apathetic, young people in countries such as Spain are strongly mobilised around very specific and urgent causes. The climate crisis is perhaps the most prominent: inspired by global movements such as Fridays for Future, thousands of young people have taken to the streets to demand action on global warming. They are also passionate [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-not-apathy-its-strategy-how-young-people-are-reinventing-civil-society/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-attack-on-piera-mosque-and-the-rising-tide-of-islamophobia/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-attack-on-piera-mosque-and-the-rising-tide-of-islamophobia/#respond Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:44:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286191 On the 12th of July, 2025, a devastating act of Islamophobia unfolded in Piera, Spain. The Piera Mosque, a symbol of the local Muslim community, was set on fire in what authorities are investigating as a hate crime. While the incident has sparked widespread condemnation from the Muslim community and officials such as the Mayor [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-attack-on-piera-mosque-and-the-rising-tide-of-islamophobia/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-is-right-to-reject-increased-military-spending/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-is-right-to-reject-increased-military-spending/#respond Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285309 Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has broken ranks with other NATO leaders as he refused to commit to spending 5 percent of GDP on defense. It’s a welcome move, and a rare voice of dissent from Europe’s rush to remilitarize. On Thursday, Spain’s center-left prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, broke ranks with other NATO leaders as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-is-right-to-reject-increased-military-spending/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-convenes-intl-conference-to-call-for-arms-embargo-on-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-convenes-intl-conference-to-call-for-arms-embargo-on-israel/#respond Mon, 26 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284218 The Spanish wire service EFE reports that delegations from 20 countries met Sunday in Madrid in a push to pressure Israel to halt its total war on Gaza and to establish a Palestinian state. Convened by Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares, the conference sought to move to concrete actions. Israel had blocked all humanitarian aid for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-convenes-intl-conference-to-call-for-arms-embargo-on-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activists-urge-spanish-government-to-implement-on-israel-arms-embargo-immediately/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activists-urge-spanish-government-to-implement-on-israel-arms-embargo-immediately/#respond Sat, 24 May 2025 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284148 On Tuesday, May 20, a majority of representatives in the Spanish Parliament voted in favor of a motion calling for an arms embargo on Israel. Spearheaded by the progressive blocs Podemos, Sumar, and the Republican Left of Catalonia, everyone but the right-wing supported the motion – including Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activists-urge-spanish-government-to-implement-on-israel-arms-embargo-immediately/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/western-sahara-colonialism-labor-and-imperialist-complicity/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/western-sahara-colonialism-labor-and-imperialist-complicity/#respond Wed, 14 May 2025 12:24:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283735 In 2025, we mark 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara — a colonial occupation sustained by a repressive military apparatus, a deliberate policy of demographic substitution, and, above all, a web of international complicity. It is a colony in the full Marxist sense of the term: a territory exploited, dominated, and manipulated [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/western-sahara-colonialism-labor-and-imperialist-complicity/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/iberian-blackout-shutdown-private-profit-to-promote-an-ecosocialist-transition/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/iberian-blackout-shutdown-private-profit-to-promote-an-ecosocialist-transition/#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 15:00:13 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283360 Last Monday [April 28], the entire Iberian Peninsula lost power overnight. The causes that led to the fluctuations in the electrical grid are still unknown, and we must reject any misinformation or opportunism in this regard. In this sense, the working class, through its unions and social organizations, must have the right to participate in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/iberian-blackout-shutdown-private-profit-to-promote-an-ecosocialist-transition/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spains-housing-crisis-boils-over/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spains-housing-crisis-boils-over/#respond Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282187 Outrage over property profiteering and government inaction showed its strength and mobilising power on 5 April, with 42 demonstrations demanding lower rents or the implementation of indefinite contracts, among other measures such as reclaiming empty, tourist and seasonal homes; ending speculative buying and selling; and expanding the public rental housing stock. “Today’s mobilisations, with thousands [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spains-housing-crisis-boils-over/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-web-of-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-web-of-war/#respond Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:57:21 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280107 Zoomed out, the war machine looks like a solid black box: unknowable and impregnable. We hear the horrible sounds of bombs, and the high-pitched screech of bullets. But the patterns of their production and distribution are out of sight — and all too often, therefore, out of mind. Once we open the black box, however, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-web-of-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jose-marti-and-the-second-cuban-war-of-independence/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jose-marti-and-the-second-cuban-war-of-independence/#respond Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:20:55 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279106 A Spanish colony since the 15th century, following Christopher Columbus’s conquest of America, Cuba has always aspired to gain independence and take control of its destiny. In the early 19th century, the Haitian people, guided by the example of Toussaint Louverture, broke the chains of slavery and defeated Napoleon’s army on the battlefield, delivering France’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jose-marti-and-the-second-cuban-war-of-independence/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/migrant-deaths-off-spains-coast-are-worse-than-ever/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/migrant-deaths-off-spains-coast-are-worse-than-ever/#respond Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:18:06 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278001 2024 is over, but not before hitting a historic high for the number of people dying at Spain’s borders. According to data from the NGO Caminando Fronteras, at least 10,457 people died or disappeared trying to reach Spanish territory by irregular maritime routes over the last twelve months — a 58 percent increase from 2023. The [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/migrant-deaths-off-spains-coast-are-worse-than-ever/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-to-block-maersk-ships-bound-to-israel-after-pressure-from-activists/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-to-block-maersk-ships-bound-to-israel-after-pressure-from-activists/#respond Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:40:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275236 The Spanish government has announced it will block two ships—Denver and Seletar—operated by shipping giant Maersk and carrying military cargo bound for Israel, from docking at the port of Algeciras. This decision comes just days after the Mask off Maersk campaign released a report  exposing the company’s regular use of the Spanish port for transferring cargo that enables the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-to-block-maersk-ships-bound-to-israel-after-pressure-from-activists/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/housing-activists-in-spain-occupy-vacant-bank-owned-buildings-and-halt-evictions/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/housing-activists-in-spain-occupy-vacant-bank-owned-buildings-and-halt-evictions/#respond Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274464 When I first arrived in Spain, a real estate agent told me to avoid Manresa, the working-class city outside of Barcelona where a friend of mine lived. “Don’t go there, it’s not very nice,” he said. “Go to Costa Brava [a vacation site up north] — instead.” Unperturbed, I took a train to Manresa the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/housing-activists-in-spain-occupy-vacant-bank-owned-buildings-and-halt-evictions/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hundreds-of-unions-ngos-in-spain-call-for-general-strike-in-solidarity-with-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hundreds-of-unions-ngos-in-spain-call-for-general-strike-in-solidarity-with-palestine/#respond Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:24:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272964 More than 200 trade unions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Spain on Friday initiated a 24-hour general strike titled “Against the genocide and occupation in Palestine.” As part of the nationwide strike, demonstrations took place in the capital Madrid and other major cities such as Barcelona and Bilbao, with university students suspending classes in solidarity. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hundreds-of-unions-ngos-in-spain-call-for-general-strike-in-solidarity-with-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/podemoss-left-populism-fell-victim-to-its-elitist-culture/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/podemoss-left-populism-fell-victim-to-its-elitist-culture/#respond Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:47:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269799 Upon its creation ten years ago, Podemos promised to rally the masses against the establishment parties. But it soon became dominated by highly educated progressives, confining its appeal to just part of the working class.This year marks a decade since the creation of Podemos, the party that emerged three years after the 15M movement challenged [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/podemoss-left-populism-fell-victim-to-its-elitist-culture/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-the-european-elections-reassembling-an-ecosocialist-project/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-the-european-elections-reassembling-an-ecosocialist-project/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1267797 Statement by Anticapitalistas The results of the European elections are a snapshot of the balance of forces and the current situation: the extreme right is advancing on a European scale, the parties of the extreme centre continue to retreat, but maintain their relative positions, the left remains in last place. After the rise and capitulation [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-the-european-elections-reassembling-an-ecosocialist-project/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-want-peace-spain-applies-to-join-icj-genocide-case-against-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-want-peace-spain-applies-to-join-icj-genocide-case-against-israel/#respond Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1267519 Spain’s foreign minister announced Thursday that the country had applied to join the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, just over a week after formally recognizing a Palestinian state alongside other European countries. South Africa brought the case and has led it through its early stages, which culminated on May 24 with the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-want-peace-spain-applies-to-join-icj-genocide-case-against-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spains-vox-party-is-the-center-of-the-global-far-right/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spains-vox-party-is-the-center-of-the-global-far-right/#respond Sun, 26 May 2024 14:25:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266951 Three weeks before the European parliament elections, the global far-right gathered in Madrid last Sunday in an unprecedented display of its international coordination. Hosted by Spain’s neo-Francoist Vox, the three-day event ended in a mass rally with speakers that included France’s Marine Le Pen, Portugal’s André Ventura, Argentine president Javier Milei, Israeli Likud minister Amichai [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spains-vox-party-is-the-center-of-the-global-far-right/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spains-socialist-party-has-survived-but-is-still-in-danger/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spains-socialist-party-has-survived-but-is-still-in-danger/#respond Mon, 20 May 2024 16:58:32 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266629 The Left, broadly defined, is in clear decline across Europe — while the Right, especially the far right, is thriving like it hasn’t done since 1945. Ahead of June’s European elections, the trend is unmistakable: social democrats, greens, and other left-wing parties are set to lose around forty seats in the new parliament. After the fall [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spains-socialist-party-has-survived-but-is-still-in-danger/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spanish-universities-to-break-ties-with-israeli-institutions-not-committed-to-peace/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spanish-universities-to-break-ties-with-israeli-institutions-not-committed-to-peace/#respond Mon, 13 May 2024 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266269 The confederation of Spanish universities (CRUE) announced on Thursday that it will cut ties with Israeli universities and research centers “that have not expressed a firm commitment to peace and compliance with international humanitarian law.” The decision came as students across Spain began camping out on university campuses this week, as part of a wider [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spanish-universities-to-break-ties-with-israeli-institutions-not-committed-to-peace/feed/ 0