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From the darkness of the Francoist period to the vigorous feminist protests of the current day, Spain has undergone a radical metamorphosis. The nation’s democratic transition didn’t come because of the collapse of Francisco Franco’s decades-long dictatorship, or due to a well-liked rebellion. Instead, it was initiated by forces inside the Franco regime itself, designed to allow them to rework and be redeployed in a brand new framework. This singular political scenario paved the best way for opposition events, significantly socialists, to achieve energy, solely to grow to be the guardians and managers of a brand new liberal, Atlanticist consensus.
Between the Nineteen Eighties and 2000, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and the People’s Party (PP) dominated Spain’s political life. However, because the 2010s, new actors coming from additional proper and left have entered the political enviornment, which is now extra fragmented and polarised. This evolution reveals a society formed by contradictory political, social and cultural dynamics.
Long an outcast amongst nations, Spain gambled on the success of its integration into Europe within the Nineteen Eighties. It step by step grew to become an vital nation, each regionally and globally. Today, it’s prepared to be outspoken on important worldwide points (Gaza, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), whereas a few of its home political selections (on the rights of ladies, staff and sexual minorities) replicate progressive aspirations. Fifty years on from Franco’s dying, this e book outlines the various faces of a rustic formed by reminiscence, anger and hope.
In this e book :
• ‘The good, the dangerous and the tasteless’ by Pierre Daum
• ‘Felipe González’s cat’ by Luis Sepúlveda
• ‘The re-invention of custom’ by Lola Parra Craviotto
• ‘Podemos and the bounds of change’ by Maëlle Mariette
• ‘Twilight years of Spain’s monarchy’ by Pablo Castaño
• ‘Spain votes, however the place are the events headed?’ by Maëlle Mariette
• ‘Madrid, residence to South America’s super-rich’ by by Hèctor Estruch & Vladimir Slonska-Malvaud
• ‘Why Spain stands with Palestine’ by Lilith Verstrynge
Taking Sides is a sequence of ebooks printed by Le Monde diplomatique. In every e book, we’re releasing probably the most important articles from our English-language archive since 1996, on a subject that deserves your consideration.
