Polish women staged magnificent demonstrations and strike action all over the country last week, fighting against a proposed law that would ban abortion under all circumstances. Even in this country where the Catholic Church is so powerful, and where the right-wing Law and Justice Party won power just a year ago, the spirit of struggle is alive and explosive.

On Sunday 2nd October, Colombian voters rejected the agreement between the government and the FARC guerrillas “for the end of the conflict and the building of a stable and lasting peace.” Jorge Martín explains the process leading up to the referendum and what this will mean for the future of the class struggle in Colombia.

The crisis in the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) was resolved at the weekend with a decisive victory of the coup plotters against PSOE leader Pedro Sanchez. This opens the way for the victors to allow the formation of a government of the right-wing Popular Party. This, in turn, presents huge opportunities for Podemos and the United Left to make significant gains.