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Yolanda Diaz, leader of the left-wing coalition Sumar, casts her vote in Spain's general election in Madrid, Sunday, July 23, 2023
SPAIN went to the polls today in a general election that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the political right.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called the early election after his Spanish Socialist Workers Party and its left-wing partner, Unidas Podemos, took a severe beating in local and regional elections in May.
Most opinion polls have put the right-wing Popular Party (PP), which won the May vote, ahead of the Socialists but likely to need the support of the far-right Vox party to form a government.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died 50 years ago today November 20. JIM JUMP looks back at his blood-soaked rule and toxic legacy on Spain today
TONY CONWAY assesses the lessons of the 1930s and looks at what is similar, and what is different, about the rise of the far right today