Anger against the system exploded onto the streets. The fires and barricades could signal the end of this political regime if the movement keeps growing.
Month: October 2026
Spain: Notes on the social explosion over housing
On Friday, 2 October 2026, the first result of the event that has shaken politics in the Spanish state was staged, with the vote in Congress of the two Decrees that the government had launched to try to respond to the housing movement. Both texts were negotiated in a hurry and represented the attempt of the ruling PSOE party and its allies to make a final move in order to survive the cycle that, inevitably, will open from the next few weeks.
What’s up with Jacobin’s “Working-Class Win-o-Meter”?
Even though DSA, Jacobin, CWCP and the rest aren’t in practice committed to a fundamental goal of 19th century social democracy—that is, building a social democratic or labor party—they operate on a theory of working-class politics and consciousness very much in line with their social democratic forebears.
New Trump-Rodriguez oil deal: Neocolonial pact and reshaping of Venezuela
Recalling Trump’s infamous meeting with major oil companies to discuss Venezuela on January 9 of this year, the strategy to allay their concerns and guarantee long-term investments becomes clearer: to entrench and secure the mortgage of an entire country for decades to come. Only in this way could that guarantee of stable, reliable, and cheap energy eventually materialize in times of “emergencies” and geopolitical confrontation.
