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1、Spain’sopportunistUnitedLeftforms“broadfront”ByPaulMitchell?29August2011Sinceitsformationin1986,theUnitedLeft(IU),acoalitionledbytheCommunistParty(PCE),regionalistgroupsandtheGreens,hasbaseditselfontheideathattherulingSocialistWorkersParty(PSOE)canbepre
2、ssuredtotheleft.Meanwhile,thePSOEhasmarchedsteadilytotheright.Aftertheglobalfinancialcollapseeruptedin2008,JoséLuisZapatero’sPSOEgovernment,withtheassistanceofthetradeunions,beganimposingmassivespendingcuts,cuttingwagesandpensionsandattackingworkingcond
3、itions.ThePSOEhascommitteditself,shoulditwinupcomingelections,todoingwhatevertheEuropeanUnionandInternationalMonetaryFunddemand.Zapatero’sactionshavediscreditedthePSOEintheeyesofbroadmassesofworkersandyouth,andthepartysuffereditsworstdefeatinitshistoryi
4、nlocalandregionalelectionsinMay.Atthesametime,manypeoplehaverightlycometoviewtheIUasaservileandunprincipledjuniorpartnerofthePSOEandanintegralpartofthepoliticalestablishment.TheIU’snationalparliamentarygrouphasshrunkfrom21seatsin1996toonly2today,anditlo
5、stCordoba,theonlycityunderitscontrol,inMay.TheIU’sdeclinetakesplaceunderconditionsofgrowingmilitancyandresistance.Lastyear,ageneralstrikebroughtthecountrytoastandstill.Thisyear,the?indignados?(angryones),alsoknownastheMarch15movement,eruptedoutsideofthe
6、controlofthepoliticalpartiesandtradeunions,bringinghundredsofthousandsontothestreetsacrossthecountry.ThishaspromptedtheIUtomakeafeinttotheleftinanattempttorestoreitspoliticalstanding.AftertheMayelection,formerIUCoordinatorandcurrentCongressspokesmanGasp
7、arLlamazareslaidtheblameontheIUfederation(nationalorganisation)foritsfailureto”capitalise”onthediscreditingofthePSOEandtoestablishthecoalitionasa“realalternativeforce”.Hecalledforthefederationtoaccepta“politicalconvergencewithotherforces”anddiscussionst
8、otakeplacefromthe“bottomup”?i.e.,attheregionalandlocallevels?oncreatinga“broadfront.”ThefederationhassinceagreedtoLlamazares’sdemands,withcurrentIUcoordinatorCayoLaraissuingan“OpenCalltoSociety”fora“convergenceagainstneoliberalpo