The search for persons disappeared during the Spanish Civil War, a search backed by the United Nations and overshadowed by political debate, has resulted in the exhumation of just 800 mass graves over the last two decades, out of a total of around 3,500. It is a fragile advance that risks being [...]Read the full article
The guiding principle of the public library is that everyone deserves free and open access to our common cultural heritage. This places the institution at fundamental odds with capitalist consumer ideals. From New Delhi to Los Angeles, we visit seven ‘palaces for the [...]Read the full article
Workers and trade unions have long argued that the management of dependency care – like health and education – should be public. They argue that as public sector employees, not only would their working conditions improve but so too would the care they [...]Read the full article
Despite increasingly trying to gain recognition as a profession, the sector is still largely embedded in the informal economy and many of its workers are undocumented migrant women. Could regulation of the sector open up new avenues for legal [...]Read the full article
In Spain, the Fundación Secretariado Gitano reports an average of 300 cases of antigypsyism every year. Roma men and women are denied employment, housing or even entry to leisure or entertainment venues because they are Roma, due to the perpetual presumption of [...]Read the full article
Eduardo Magaldi González:Collective bargaining is once again at the centre of the settlement of industrial relations thanks to the labour reform recently passed by the Spanish parliament.Read the full article
The social stigma attached to harassment is so deeply ingrained in the world of work that victims often prefer to remain anonymous and most cases go unreported. Employers are reluctant to hire victims of harassment, which makes it almost impossible for them to re-enter the labour [...]Read the full article
Rising temperatures and adverse weather conditions affecting Europe made 2021 a particularly tough year for bees. The honey harvest has been badly hit. Pesticide poisoning and unfair competition from third countries are adding to the problems faced by [...]Read the full article
“If you protest on the job, if you demand your rights, they’ll tell you ‘If you don’t like it get out, I have 3,000 people out there who will do it for half the money.’”Read the full article
On the 10th anniversary of Spain’s citizen, anti-austerity movement 15M, the Spanish writer and activist Fernández-Savater takes stock of the Indignados.Read the full article
Given the significant differences between the positions of key political players (left, right, anti-system, nationalist, constitutionalist, etc.), there is a real risk that the ‘Catalan conflict’ will join the list of frozen conflicts.Read the full article
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted a crisis of care around the world, not only for the very young, but also for the old. It is one of the great challenges we have to approach from an international angle, without letting another day go [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Morocco is continuing to score points in its overt bid to gain total control of Western Sahara, tipping the balance ever more clearly in its favour. The UN and the ‘Group of Friends’ have long since given up on jeopardising their ties with Rabat for the sake of the [...]Read the full article
When armed conflicts drag on for decades or terrorist attacks mark the lives of several generations, the testimonies of those responsible sometimes do more to heal than ordinary justice.Read the full article
Spain is looking for new ways to breathe life into its mining regions following the closure of its coal mines in 2018. Just transition and social dialogue are key, but time is running out.Read the full article
The old fishing quarter of El Cabanyal offers a prime example of firm resistance against the local council’s urban development ambitions. “Every house was defended by the grandparents, the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren who grew up in them. It was that rootedness that kept the [...]Read the full article
With five directors and around 20 associates, the Valencia-based NGO Supervivientes del Aquarius (Survivors of the Aquarius) is made up of people rescued by the popular humanitarian ship and functions as a vehicle for migrants to make their own voices [...]Read the full article
One (accidental and positive) effect of the economic crisis has been that it has led to new intergenerational relations. Young and old help and support each other in the framework of intergenerational living programmes.Read the full article
Over the last 22 years, Spain has gone from being a country that was lagging behind in terms of legally classifying and eradicating gender-based violence to being one of Europe’s frontrunners in the area.Read the full article
A hard-hitting play recently performed in Spain about the highly publicised ‘La Manada’ (‘the Wolf Pack’) trial – five men accused of raping a young woman in 2016 – and the decision to show it specifically to secondary school students has pinpointed an important shortcoming: the lack of sex education [...]Read the full article
For many years, the LGBTI community ignored its own elders. Today, the first generations that fought for equal rights are reaching retirement age and the issue has been forced on the community.Read the full article
While some undocumented migrant farm workers in Andalucía are paid the minimum legal daily wage of €41.20, many others survive on as little as €20.Read the full article
On 14 June, the women of Argentina made history: the lower house of Congress passed a bill to decriminalise abortion. Macri’s decision to process the bill is a testament to the strength of the feminist movement in Argentina. But it is not only in this Latin American country that feminist [...]Read the full article
Amongst key UK outsourcing corporations, Carillion collapsed in January 2018. Capita is in crisis. There is an escalating financial crisis in local government funding. All of which have fed public sentiment against privatisation.Read the full article
Since 2009, the Shepherding School of Catalonia has been offering training in the practice of shepherding. With close to 80 per cent of its alumni turning to livestock farming after completing the course, the educational institution is playing a vital role in reviving the rural [...]Read the full article
Juan Pablo Cardenal:“The principle of legality is fundamental to modern democracies precisely because of the need to prevent someone being able to claim they are representative of a so-called ‘democratic majority’ in order to control power outside the scope of established [...]Read the full article
Thirty one years after the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, and just six since the Fukushima disaster in Japan, there are more than enough reasons for the eternal debate over the reliability and safety of nuclear power to be as heated as [...]Read the full article
Dockworkers and companies in Spanish ports have reached an initial agreement, on their own, enabling the suspension of strike action, despite the inflexible attitude shown by the government, which has passed a decree aimed at wiping out good working conditions in the [...]Read the full article
Third age cooperatives in Denmark, Holland or Germany offer a new model of shared retirement. In Spain alone, 8.5 million people are aged over 65, and 87 per cent refuse to live in nursing homes.Read the full article
The 15M movement constituted the most significant political development in Spain since the democratic transition (1975). Collective creativity, placed at the service of ending the economic, social and political crisis, whilst not achieving its aim has left an important [...]Read the full article
The financial and economic crisis, youth unemployment, cuts in social spending, political deadlock and the territorial crisis are some of the keys to understanding Spain’s political and socio-economic climateRead the full article
Eduardo Magaldi González:
