Anticapitalistas (

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: ''Anticapitalistes'', Euskera: ''Antikapitalistak'',

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: Anticapitalists), known as Izquierda Anticapitalista (Anti-Capitalist Left, IA) until January 2015 and as Espacio Alternativo (Alternative Space, EA) from 1995 to November 2008, is a

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political organisation that works as a confederation in

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. Anticapitalistas is defined as a

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, anti-capitalist, proletarian internationalist, feminist,

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, and

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organisation, assuming

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in an open, plural, and critical sense. Its stated objective is the rebuilding of the revolutionary project through the creation of a unitary, anti-capitalist political expression sustained by the

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, the labor movement, and the

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at large. It is a member of the

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, a

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international organisation reformed in 1963. On 23 February 2009, IA entered in the register of political parties of the Interior Ministry, and presented candidacies to several elections. In January 2015, IA decided to become the Anticapitalistas political association and join Podemos, which lasted until 2020.

History

Espacio Alternativo

Anticapitalistas was founded in 1995 under the name Espacio Alternativo (Alternative Space) by former militants of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), after its failed union with the

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, in the project Alternative Left, joined United Left (IU). By then, EA also had the support of some ecosocialists. Subsequently, the organisation gained members in and out of IU. However, EA progressively lost weight as an internal current of IU, mainly due to the rupture with the

ecosocialist Eco-socialism (also known as green socialism or socialist ecology) is an ideology merging aspects of socialism with that of green politics, ecology and alter-globalization or anti-globalization. Eco-socialists generally believe that the expansi ...

sectors that originally participated in its foundation. Some prominent leaders of IU linked to EA abandoned the current in the early 2000s, for example, Julio Setién,

Oskar Matute Oskar Matute García de Jalón (born 5 October 1972) is a Spanish politician and a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. He was previously a member of the Basque Parliament. Early life Matute was born on 5 October 1972 in Barakaldo, Bas ...

or Concha Denche. EA was, de facto, an external organisation towards IU. EA held the 5th confederal meeting in December 2007, abandoning IU.

Creation of the party and European Parliament elections 2009

Organisation

Anticapitalistas is an organisation composed of various territorial organisations, the majority federated and three confederated: Esquerda Anticapitalista in

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, Antikapitalistak (in the

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) and Revolta Global-Esquerra Anticapitalista (in

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and the Balearic Islands).

Publications

Its organ of expression is the Corriente Alterna magazine, The youths of Anticapitalistas periodically publish a magazine called ''Combate Estudiantil''. Several members also have a strong presence on the editorial board of the Marxist analysis magazine '' Viento Sur''.

Summer University

Every year Anticapitalistas organises the Summer University of the Anticapitalist Left, which brings together hundreds of people, including members and sympathisers. The 2013 edition was attended by Juan Carlos Monedero,

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, Martiño Noriega, Sabino Cuadra, Esther Vivas and Jaime Pastor. The 2015 edition was attended by the Anticapitalistas European MPs Miguel Urbán and Lola Sánchez Caldentey, Katerina Sergidou, Pedro Santisteve (mayor of

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), José María González Santos ''Kichi'' (mayor of

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), Albano Dante Fachín (leader of Podemos in

), Jaime Pastor, Beatriz Gimeno,

Teresa Rodríguez María Teresa Rodríguez-Rubio Vázquez (; born 18 September 1981) is a Spanish politician. Active in the United Left in her youth, she then set up her own platform, Anticapitalistas. She was a Member of the European Parliament representing Po ...

, Teresa Forcades, Antón Sánchez and Rommy Arce (member of the Municipal Council of

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, of Anticapitalistas and

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Relation with other movements

Anticapitalistas prioritizes working in left-wing citizen platforms and in the

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. Its field of political intervention lies in the

(such as the

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, decent housing and the anti-evictions movement), in the trade union movement (in the ''mareas'' that defend public and common services and in

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and other unions) and also works in neighborhood associations and popular assemblies.

Prominent members

, leader of Adelante Andalusia. *

José María González Santos José María González Santos (born 22 September 1975), mononymously known as Kichi, is a Spanish politician and teacher, Mayor of Cádiz since 2015. Biography Born on 22 September 1975 in Rotterdam, where his parents had immigrated fleeing t ...

''Kichi'', mayor of

. * Miguel Urbán Crespo, MEP of

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in the

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. * Laura Camargo, spokesperson of Podemos in the Balearic Islands. * Raúl Camargo, Beatriz Gimeno e Isabel Serra, representatives in the

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(2015–2019). * Rommy Arce, city councillor in

(2015–2019). * Andreu Escobar, general secretary of Podemos in Badalona.

International relations

Anticapitalistas is a member of the European Anti-Capitalist Left, a heterogeneous network of socialist political groups of various tendencies that have a Marxist inspiration. Anticapitalistas also participates in the United Secretariat of the

, considered itself the heir of the former LCR and the historic

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References

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