Political parties

Guía básica sobre la esencia de las políticas del Partido Laborista en el Reino Unido

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Alternativas Públicas

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Si no te entusiasma el tema, es que no estás prestando atención

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Satoko Kishimoto

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Shaun Matsheza

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Beatriz Martínez

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El Partido Laborista del Reino Unido está alentando a las bases y estimulando la movilización de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras, al mismo tiempo que muestra un liderazgo cada vez más sólido. Su reciente congreso anual, organizado en paralelo al festival político The World Transformed (TWT), son motivo de esperanza.

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Jeremy Corbyn hablando sobre el programa del partido titulado For the Many, durante el TWT / Photo credit Jess Graham (TNI)... Read more

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Jeremy Corbyn speaking at TWTs' A World for the Many

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A beginner’s guide to the core of UK Labour party politics today

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Public Alternatives

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If you’re not excited, you’re not paying attention

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Article

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Satoko Kishimoto

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Shaun Matsheza

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The UK's labour party is inspiring grassroots and workers mobilisation and showing increasingly credible leadership. Its recent annual conference and the concurrently run World Transformed Festival give hope.

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El intento por parte de Barcelona en Comú de ser un partido-movimiento

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Spain

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El intento por parte de Barcelona en Comú de ser un partido-movimiento, Barcelona en Comú, Ciudades Transformadoras,

Examining Barcelona en Comu's attempt to be a movement-party

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El nuevo activismo modelo en el Reino Unido: llevar al Partido Laborista al Gobierno y dar el poder al pueblo

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Democratización

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Programmes:

Alternativas Públicas

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Article

Authors:

Hilary Wainwright

Translators:

Christine Lewis Carroll

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La ‘nueva política’ se refiere tanto al poder electoral como a la construcción de un poder transformador.

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“Nuestro objetivo es profundizar en la democracia, la solidaridad y el poder de base participativos, y ayudar al laborismo a convertirse en el partido gobernante transformador del siglo XXI”, declararon los tres miembros fundadores de Momentum (Adam Klug, Emma Rees y James Schneider en Renewal [revista del Partido Laborista] en 2016. Reconocieron que se trataba de un “proyecto muy ambicioso” y... Read more

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New model activism: Putting Labour in office and the people in power

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Democratisation

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Public Alternatives

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Article

Authors:

Hilary Wainwright

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The ‘new politics’ needs to be about both winning electoral power and building transformative power.

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‘Our goal is to increase participatory democracy, solidarity and grassroots power, and to help Labour become the transformative governing party of the 21st century,’ declared three founder members of Momentum (Adam Klug, Emma Rees and James Schneider, in Renewal) in 2016. They acknowledged that this was a ‘highly ambitious project’ and spelt out the extent of this ambition: ‘The aim is not just... Read more

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Report from the second Citizen’s Assembly of Podemos

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Participatory Democracy

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New Politics

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Article

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Sol Trumbo Vila

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Sol Trumbo Vila says the mandate from the Podemos Assembly is to go forwards in unity and with humility

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Tensions were very high on Friday, with Pablo Iglesias announcing that he would not only renounce the general secretary position if his team and thesis lost, but even his seat in the parliament. An “órdago” (a card move of the most famous Spanish card game Mus, like all-in in poker), to the membership, to make it clear that he would not only leave the party without full control of all its part... Read more

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The great capitulation

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Democratisation

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New Politics

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Article

Authors:

Praful Bidwai

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Indians and Pakistanis have to develop a common, rational understanding of the partition story that is free of nationalist prejudice -- although Jaswant Singh makes little contribution to this.

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Many Pakistani liberals are exulting over former Indian minister Jaswant Singh's book on Mohammed Ali Jinnah in the belief that it is a sign of rethinking within the conservative Hindu-communal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the founder of Pakistan, and that it will provoke a larger debate on the causes of partition and who was responsible for it.... Read more

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Desde Dentro: Un Viaje al Corazón de la Revolución Venezolana (Nuevo Documental)

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Soluciones justas

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Article

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En Febrero del 2009 se cumplieron 10 años desde que Hugo Chávez asumiera el gobierno después de una abrumadora victoria electoral y lanzara su revolución para introducir cambios radicales en Venezuela. Aunque Chávez cuenta con el apoyo de un gran sector de la población venezolana, sus políticas y las criticas abiertas al gobierno de los Estados Unidos le han generado poderosos enemigos en el p... Read more

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South America

Venezuela

UPA’s early drift

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Article

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Praful Bidwai

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The government has not made a break with conservative and neoliberal policies despite the election’s message and its own promises.

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THE United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA) re-election on a platform promising inclusive pro-poor policies raised the hope that it would consolidate and sharpen its broadly left-of-centre orientation, which paid it rich electoral dividends. There were caveats, of course. After the Left parties broke with the UPA on the India-United States nuclear deal, and more broadly, on foreign and security po... Read more

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