Fascinating to see the way the economic crisis in southern Europe is
giving new life to parties and politicians who, until just a few
months ago were on the fringes of the debate … Syriza and Alexis
Tsipras in Greece, Beppe Grillo and the Five Star Movement in Italy,
and now Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, the mayor of Marinaleda in Spain
whom I must have interviewed for the first time back in the 1970s when
he was campaigning for the rights of Andalusia’s downtrodden
day-labourers, the ‘jornaleros’. There’s more on him in this report by
my Guardian colleague, Giles Tremlett,
and for a video of the sacking of the supermarket:
http://gawker.com/juan-manuel-
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Italy mourns cardinal who said Catholic church was 200 years out of date
Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini railed against conservatives in his church in an interview published the day after his death.