Tag Archive: Europe

It’s Franco’s heart that beats in Madrid

July 29, 2013 9:00 am Leave your thoughts

No Gibraltarian, and come to that anybody living in the real world, will believe the confrontations at sea last week over the reef laying and the six hour car queues to leave Gibraltar at the weekend were anything but linked, writes David Eade.

Spaniards believe their political parties are corrupt

July 11, 2013 1:10 pm Leave your thoughts

The article based on the findings from Transparency International on its Global corruption Barometer was squeezed in at the bottom of the Spanish newspaper. This isn't because the editor thought it unimportant it is just that the reports on the various corruption cases engulfing the centre right Partido Popular left little space, writes David Eade.

European Social Contract Betrayed

June 16, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts

IMF imposed austerity has resulted in millions of working people rejecting the traditional mainstream capitalist parties and voting for parties labeled by the bourgeois media as "fringe"