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On March 29th the Generalitat of Catalonia and the electricity company Endesa reached an agreement1 —qualified as “historic” by social organizations— that will relieve 73% of the accumulated debt of the most vulnerable families between 2015 and 20202 and the rest of the debt will be assumed by the autonomous administration. This agreement has only beenpossible thanks to the legal framework that exists in Catalonia: The agreement between Endesa and the Generalitat is framed within Law 24/2015on urgent measures to face the … Read more

On 8th of April the Congress of Spain has approved by majority the Law on Climate Change and Energy Transition1 pending and only from its last process in the Senate and whose objectives include ending the sale of polluting cars in 2040, cutting emissions and achieving the neutrality in greenhouse gas emissions of the country in 2050. It is the first law in the history of Spain specifically aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change. Will it arrive on time and will it have enough ambition to achieve the expected and necessary changes in the country’s energy infrastructure? The law has been approved by votes in favor of the majority of the parties2.Only the parties Partido Popular and Más País have abstained, the latter for “lack of ambition” of the law3 and only VOX has voted against. This accusation of lack of ambition in the law has been common … Read more

Extremadura is currently one of the territories that is experiencing the explosion of so-called clean energies. Between lithium mines and photovoltaic panels its inhabitants see little return from this electrical colonization. The production of electrical energy with respect to the state total in 2019 was 8.07%. The 21,030 GWh generated in Extremadura place it in an outstanding sixth place, only surpassed by Catalonia, Andalusia, Galicia, Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León. The balance of the energy generated in the Extremadura … Read more

Since April 8th of 2021 2,857 people have been arrested or sentenced and 614 people have been assassinatedby the junta of the coup military forces in Burma according to data from the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners1, which implies an increase in the intensity of repression and violence since the first days of the military coup and the establishment of the Min Aung Hlaing military junta. On Armed Forces Day alone 114 civilians have lost their lives in a … Read more

The Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, together with the social dialogue table, made up of Workers’ Commissions, UGT and the CEOE and Cepyme employers, have agreed on a pension reform1 that will force two more years of work, from the 64.5 years of the current retirement age to 66.5 and that will come into effect in 2024. To do this, they plan to penalize early retirement: cuts of up to 21% in ordinary early retirement and bonuses for … Read more

The United States, together with its NATO allies, has staged its definitive withdrawal from Afghanistan in Bagram. On May 1, US forces began their process of withdrawing from Afghanistan, after twenty years fighting in what is so far the longest war in US history1. The decision to leave Afghanistan was agreed in the historic agreement between the Taliban and the US, which was signed on February 29, 2019 in Doha, with the aim of finding a way to end the … Read more

Since last March 23rdthe European Union obliges the Spanish State to count the debt of the Spanish bad bank Sareb in the Spanish public debt1. That means that 35 billion euros will be added to the accounting of the public debt of Spain, so it raise from 117% to 120% of GDP. Sareb was created with the objective of buying all toxic and problematic assets that the banks had in order to “clean” their balance sheets. The Minister of Economy … Read more

This past March 24th marked the 45th anniversary of the coup in Argentina led by the military man Videla and which gave way to the dictatorship (1976-1983) that plunged the Latin American country into repression, violence and a wave of regression in human rights.As every year the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice was commemorated. For the second consecutive year, the annual march is not held, in which punishment is requested for the responsible persons of the dictatorship … Read more

On March 3rd Sarah Everad disappeared. Days later a corpse was found whose remains corresponded to the 33-year-old woman and a police officer was charged with kidnapping and murder in London after the body of the missing girl was identified. The case has caused quite a stir in the UK1. On March 13th hundreds of women walked together on the streets in South London to demand better security2. They marched with candles and flowers but the metropolitan police received them … Read more

Since the beginning of his mayoralty in June 2019 José Luis Martínez-Almeidahas not stopped fighting everything that seems to be left: Social movements, feminism, 15-M, Self-managed Social Centers ( CSAs) or organizations dedicated to historical memory. All this could be due to an ideological militancy of the extreme right or, as many suggest, it could well be due to the need to satisfy VOX, its majority partner in the government1. With regard to their fight against feminism, we have the … Read more