Progressive Spain’s Top Ten Video Posts for 2018
Following are 2018’s ‘Top Ten Videos’ posted at Progressive Spain — our third annual selection based on a combination of the power,…
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Sánchez warns Catalans against violating Constitution
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez warned Catalan nationalist parties in Congress on Wednesday that his government will not tolerate any violation of Spain’s…
Substandard housing rife in Barcelona, warns Cáritas
The Catholic church’s Cáritas relief agency in Barcelona revealed Wednesday that nearly 950,000 people, representing 36 percent of the residents of 27…
Pablo Iglesias sole candidate for Podemos primary vote
After 90 candidates failed to show the sufficient backing required by Podemos to stand as the party’s presidential candidate in general elections anticipated for next…
Renter evictions rise as PAH faults Congress for inaction
This year is shaping up to be the worst in recent memory for evictions of renters and homeowners across Spain, according to…
Greenpeace targets Sánchez gov’t over Saudi arms sales
Activists from Greenpeace España unfurled a giant banner from Madrid’s Arco del Triunfo Monday on the occasion of international Human Rights Day,…
Podemos’ poor Andalucía showing widens rifts in party
While the poor showing of the governing Socialist party (PSOE) was a focus of Spanish and international news coverage of Sunday’s regional…
More migrants arriving illegally than 2015-17 combined
More than 59,000 migrants have arrived to Spain illegally by land and sea in the first 11 months of 2018, representing an…
‘La Manada’ rape trial headed to Spain’s Supreme Court
The controversial case of five men accused of gang-raping an 18-year-old woman during the 2016 San Fermín ‘Running of the Bulls’ festival…
PSOE dealt blow in shock Andalucía election results
Low voter turnout overall in Spain’s southernmost region of Andalucía combined with a favorable response to anti-immigrant and nationalist campaign rhetoric in…
POLITIFILE :: VOX
► VOX ► VOX is a far-right national political party launched in January 2014 by former members of the conservative Partido Popular…
Supreme Court orders demolition of Benidorm towers
Landmark twin residential towers that encroach upon the public right of way at Punta Llisera on the Bay of Benidorm in Alicante…
Catalonia protests put pressure on Torra over budget
Draconian budget cuts initiated in 2010 and continued in successive years under the government of Catalonia’s ex-President Artur Mas appear to be…
Food banks need you! It’s annual ‘Gran Recogida’ time …
Spain’s Federation of Food Banks (FESBAL) has put out the call for volunteers to help with this weekend’s Gran Recogida (Big Collection)…
Cifuentes to stand trial, Montón cleared of wrongdoing
‘!No todos somos iguales!’ (‘We are not all the same!), exclaimed former Health Minister Carmen Montón in self-defense during a September press…
Solar plant design app wins Santander ‘Explorer’ award
A software app designed by a Spanish technology startup that enables the design and optimization of large-scale photovoltaic solar plants in just…
PSOE set to win vote, govern in coalition in Andalucía
With less than one week to go before crucial 2nd December elections in Spain’s southernmost region of Andalucía, voter preference polls are…
Thousands across Spain protest violence against women
Tens of thousands in cities across Spain marched Sunday to protest machista violence against women, joining millions of women and their supporters…
Local gov’t, animal shelters join push for ‘zero sacrifice’
A new public shelter for stray domestic animals in Valencia’s La Ribera region has pledged to adopt a policy of “zero sacrifice”…
High Court says gender violence code covers all women
Spain’s Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling Wednesday that moves the aggravated circumstance of gender violence attaching to a crime beyond the…
NGOs’ campaign effort aims to make homeless visible
In the run-up to the nationwide Dia de las Personas Sin Hogar (Homeless Persons’ Day) on Sunday 25th November, four Spanish non-governmental…
Prosecutors open investigation over hunting dogs video
Public prosecutors in the province of Cáceres have opened a criminal investigation into animal cruelty after disturbing video footage circulated on social…
Sánchez gov’t opens door to early elections in 2019
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez has opened the door to the possibility of early general elections next year after saying Friday that his…
CCOO tells youth to organize for better, stable jobs
The leader of Spain’s largest trade-union federation has called on Spanish youth to reject the precarious employment situation that they have been…
Femen activists interrupt Falange event honoring Franco
Three Spanish activists from the international feminist direct-action group Femen bared their breasts in Madrid on Sunday to reveal anti-fascist slogans painted…