The June 26 election campaign in Spain is coming to an end. The coalition between Podemos and United Left seems poised to overtake the Socialist Party, and according to some opinion polls is closing the gap with the ruling right wing Popular Party, which remains in first place. What are the implications and what is the program on which Unidos Podemos stands?

We publish here an article by a comrade from Socialist Appeal USA, who looks at the causes and impact of the Zika virus – an epidemic that is hitting the poorest communities in Brazil and across the South America and the USA. The spread of the Zika virus is yet another clear example of capitalism’s inability to solve the fundamental problems facing humanity.

Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister, has put himself at the head of the European Left and is touring the continent to gather support for his “DIEM25” (Democracy in Europe Movement 2025) project to reform the institutions of the European Union. Can such a Herculean task be achieved? Or is Varoufakis’ “Modest Proposal” of DIEM25 doomed to fail?