There will be no revolution if the ‘far left’ Podemos can put a government together after the election. They have sold out on their already watery principles, on NATO, on the Monarchy.. etc to get power.
Plus it’s written into the Constitution that most of the budget must go to paying back the mega loans granted to keep the banks afloat.
But there is room for raising cash to reverse austerity, from forcing the EU to delay defecit goals, from proposed cuts to the army, bureaucracy and police, from solidarity taxes on the rich and banks, from a crackdown on corruption and from increased revenue from the ‘recovery’, etc.
The ‘Podemos Plan’ , for all its faults, (see below) reverses austerity and could bring back hope to Europe.
Spain: Can left’s economic plan reverse austerity?
United We Can.
United We Can — the united ticket made up of Podemos, the United Left, the green party Equo and three broader alliances in Catalonia, Galicia and the Valencian Country — is campaigning in the June 26 Spanish general elections on a plan to reverse economic austerity.
Is the new alliance’s plan up to the huge job? What chances of success can it have against the opposition of the Spanish and European powers-that-be? Indeed, is a capitalist Spain (and Europe) without austerity even conceivable in a world of intensifying international economic rivalry? Continue reading “Spain: The ‘Podemos Plan’ CAN upset EU Austerity Agenda”
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