Equal Times

15 April 2024

Eight decades after the Spanish Civil War, is Spain’s slow exhumation of its traumatic past a signal that it is ready to build “a culture of memory?

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

Around the world in seven public libraries, or, how to be out of tune with the capitalist logic of our time

6 March 2023

Development

Around the world in seven public libraries, or, how to be out of tune with the capitalist logic of our time

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

High value, low pay: the care sector in Spain

9 January 2023

Labour

High value, low pay: the care sector in Spain

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

In the Iberian peninsula, “unsustainable, unviable” berry businesses are draining water and exploiting migrant labour

5 December 2022

Environment

In the Iberian peninsula, “unsustainable, unviable” berry businesses are draining water and exploiting migrant labour

“This extractivist industry doesn’t benefit the region. It’s unsustainable, and it relies on the exploitation of migrant labour.”Read the full article

Spain extends rights for domestic workers but excludes the undocumented

28 October 2022

Labour

Spain extends rights for domestic workers but excludes the undocumented

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

Roma resistance: dismantling anti-Roma racism in Spain

14 March 2022

Human rights

Roma resistance: dismantling anti-Roma racism in Spain

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

17 February 2022

Labour

Labour relations: from despotism to dialogue

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

Is enough being done to stop harassment at work?

31 January 2022

Labour

Is enough being done to stop harassment at work?

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

Beekeepers in Western Europe fear for their future

12 January 2022

Development

Beekeepers in Western Europe fear for their future

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

27 October 2021

Labour

Why Southern Europe’s berry farms rely on migrant labour without rights

“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

Amador Fernández-Savater: “Spain's 15M movement was undervalued and turned into something else; it was then that it lost the energy that was inherent to it”

14 May 2021

Politics & economy

Amador Fernández-Savater: “Spain’s 15M movement was undervalued and turned into something else; it was then that it lost the energy that was inherent to it”

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

Catalonia, a frozen conflict in the heart of the EU?

12 March 2021

Politics & economy

Catalonia, a frozen conflict in the heart of the EU?

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

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