'WE CAN' - CHANGE IN SPAIN

Pablo Iglesias Turrión, leader and founder of the Spanish political party called Podemos ('We Can')

Asad Ismi writes the following about Spain’s Podemos' Irresistable Rise:

(Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives)

1. If a national election was to be held in Spain today, the 'left-wing/centrist' Podemos would almost certainly form the government.

Podemos has apparently become centrist, neither left nor right wing.

2. According to a recent poll:

Podemos has 22% of the popular vote.

The Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), which is neoliberal rather than socialist, has 20%.

The ruling right-wing Partido Popular (PP) has 19%.

The new right-wing Ciudadanos party has 18%.

3. The PSOE and the PP are controlled by the 'corrupt' oligarchs, the banks and the upper-middle class.

Spain has been run by this group since the death of the fascist dictator General Francisco Franco.

Spain's biggest corporations hardly pay any taxes.


Madrid in 1955, under a Conservative government.

4. Podemos says it wants to:

End the dictatorship of the elite.

Have true participatory democracy. 

(Take power away from the oligarchs and give more power to the villages and towns. Switzerland gives most of the powers to the cantons/counties rather than the central government. In Ancient Greece, the Oligarchs seized power when the villages and towns lost their powers.)

Restructure the government debt. 

(Pay the money back over a longer period of time).

Podemos is not anti-capitalist, but, it wants to make corporations pay taxes.

End the austerity imposed on Spain by the EU and the two establishment parties since the 2007 economic crisis.

AUSTERITY - GOOD OR BAD?

Podemos, like the Syriza party in Greece, does not want to leave the euro zone.

Podemos claims to be Centrist - neither left nor right wing.


Conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy

In Spain, unemployment for young people reached 56% in 2013.

There has been a 10% drop in wages, for the non-oligarchs.

44% of families are now in an economically precarious position.

More than 400,000 families have been evicted from their homes

The PP government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has been dismantling the underfunded welfare state.

Professor Cristina Fominaya, of the University of Aberdeen, Podemos is "offering an alternative political party model…that is not beholden to private capitalist interests but is instead crowdfunded through small donations... It seeks to maintain contact with social movements and with grassroots party activists..."

Professor Carles Muntaner, of Toronto University, says that the old socialist and social-democrat parties in Europe are no longer socialist because they have been taken over by the neoliberals.

However, some people think that Podemos has become too centrist.

Podemos has distanced itself from the radicals in South America.


Pablo's party likes purple.

Pablo Iglesias (above) is the leader of Spain's left wing Podemos party "which has come out of nowhere."

'Yes he can!' 

We should not forget that in Spain "the CIA sponsored the socialist Felipe González."

Podemas means 'We Can'.



Podemos came seemingly out of nowhere to capture 1.2 million votes and five seats in the European elections.

Podemas is anti-austerity.

It wants higher minimum wages and a guaranteed minimum income.

It wants to abolish tax havens and EU border controls.

It wants to nationalise the banks that were recently in trouble.


Pablo Iglesias meets the 'gay' King of Spain. ¿Pablo Iglesias el nuevo ISIDORO Translate this page

Pablo Iglesias refers to Spain's institutions being in crisis.

He refers to a monarchy "that's more and more identified with impunity and corruption."

Pablo Iglesias says: "If people don't do politics, others will do it for you. 

"And when others do it for you, they can steal your rights, your democracy and your wallet."

Pablo Iglesias is against a privileged elite that is failing to help ordinary Spaniards.

Pablo Iglesias has, perhaps unfairly, been compared to Fidel Castro, who reportedly is an asset of the CIA.


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