CP of the Workers of Spain, Press releases: In light of the mobilizations for the right to housing and the government’s decrees The Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) welcomes the scale and determination of the mobilisations for the right to housing taking place across the country, particularly in Puerta del Sol, following the eviction of Maricarmen. The coalition Government has been forced, solely and exclusively as a result of popular pressure in the streets, to approve two Royal Decrees introducing a number of urgent measures, at a time when the relentless rise in rental and property prices, together with the threat of eviction, is making access to housing increasingly difficult for millions of workers. Once again, organisation and struggle have proven to be the most powerful tools at our disposal: they enable us to win gains and to impose our interests. The lesson that we, as the working class, must draw is the need to continue further down this path. For some time now, the number of strikes and mobilisations by different sectors of workers has been steadily increasing in Spain, and the task now must be to strengthen a unified perspective: organisational unity and programmatic unity.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-the-Workers-of-Spain-Press-releases-In-light-of-the-mobilizations-for-the-right-to-housing-and-the-governments-decrees/Democrats Have Created a Consultant-Driven Echo Chamber Review of Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative by Evan Barker (Threshold Editions, 2026)“The number one rule of political fundraising,” Evan Barker writes in the first line of Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, “is to never, ever, under any circumstances, speak about it publicly.” Then she spends 288 pages talking about it, and it’s a wonderful thing that she does. Barker’s insider account of her time deep in the bowels of the Democratic Party often reads like The Jungle of Democratic fundraising: Upton Sinclair showed readers how the sausage got made, and Barker shows how the candidates do. By the end, it’s clear that the Democrats are a glorified fundraising organization with an electoral department attached, one that absorbs idealism, monetizes it, and then disciplines anyone who threatens its arrangements, often with the cynical deployment of identity politics. Some of the book’s most compelling sections are autobiography. At times, it’s like Hillbilly Elegy but one that wears a blue lanyard. Like J. D. Vance, Barker is a striver from the hollowed-out middle of the country. In her case, that’s Missouri, where her mother and grandmother live on Social Security checks and the towns feel, as she puts it, “stripped for parts and left behind.” At seventeen, she was cutting class to intern for Barack Obama in Kansas City, running phone banks for volunteers three times her age. For Barker, politics was a matter of life and death in the most literal sense — she has a rare genetic lung disease. Insurers could reject her because of a preexisting condition, and her parents could not simply buy their way around the problem. “My disease will kill me if I can’t get insurance after high school,” she told the law students she trained to register voters, and a version of her story later turned up in a Michelle Obama speech.
https://jacobin.com/2026/09/barker-democratic-party-class-trumpJ. V. Stalin: You will wait in vain !The outstanding feature of the present moment is the impassable chasm that lies between the government and the masses, a chasm which did not exist in the early months of the revolution, and which opened as a result of the Kornilov revolt. After the victory over tsarism, at the very beginning of the revolution, power came into the hands of the imperialist bourgeoisie. It was not the workers and soldiers, but a handful of Cadet imperialists who came to power. How did that happen, and what precisely did the rule of this handful of bourgeois rest on? The fact of the matter was that the workers and, chiefly, the soldiers placed their trust in the bourgeoisie and hoped, in alliance with it, to secure bread and land, peace and freedom. It was on this "unreasoning trust" of the masses in the bourgeoisie that the rule of the bourgeoisie then rested. The coalition with the bourgeoisie was merely the expression of this trust and this rule. But six months of revolution have not been in vain. What the coalition with the bourgeoisie has given the masses is starvation instead of bread, unemployment instead of higher wages, empty promises instead of land, a fight against the Soviets instead of liberty, war until the exhaustion of Russia and the treachery of the Kornilovites at Tarnopol and Riga instead of peace. The Kornilov revolt merely summed up the six months' experience of coalition by revealing the treachery of the Cadets and the disastrousness of a policy of compromise with them. All that, of course, has not been in vain. The "unreasoning trust" of the masses in the bourgeoisie has disappeared. Coalition with the Cadets has been succeeded by a break with them. Confidence in the bourgeoisie has been succeeded by hatred for it. The rule of the bourgeoisie no longer has a reliable foundation.
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