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Barcelona Officials Plan Alternative Currency The New American The Bank of Spain, the Spanish central bank that has now been subordinated to the controversial European Central Bank (ECB), blasted the idea as “impossible in addition to being... 
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Protest parties make gains in Spain's local elections, depriving the governing People's Party of overall control of Madrid and other councils.
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From Istanbul to Barcelona, the co-operative movement is flourishing as employees revive what the bosses buried
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How did a handful of people in a room in Barcelona grow to become Spain’s nation-wide anti-eviction movement? How did those in mortgage arrears, a sector of society overwhelmed by debt, faced with the immanent possibility of homelessness and often suffering from unemployment, become a political actor which could place the housing crisis at the centre of the national conversation and put collective action back on the map for millions of people?
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Anti-poverty activist Ada Colau elected as mayor of Barcelona, while battle for control of capital pits countess against former communist
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At municipal elections, grassroots politicians are gaining support with pledges to fight corruption and austerity.
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"The Citizens' Parliament has emerged because our representative institutions are demonstrably not working. They don't perform their basic functions; they don't engage with the public to think about what to do, and they don't ask questions. Rather than truly legislating, they bow to the will of lobbies. They don't promote political culture or public involvement. In fact, they encourage passivity. In the face of this situation, the Citizens' Parliament reflects the intuition that the power to legislate derives from the knowledge of the citizenry in many sectors. We can exercise executive capacity through civil disobedience, campaigns, social movements and actions, and spaces for learning and fostering political culture. Compared to lobbies, our strength lies in the fact that we're working for the common good in the hope of creating a collaborative world.
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Welcome to the Fab Academy Barcelona 2014, we are very proud and pleased to have for the next year students from 16 different countries around the world, such as:
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