The Iowa Caucus results are in. Bernie Sanders, who identifies himself a socialist and calls for a “political revolution against the billionaire class”, was defeated by Hillary Clinton by a mere 0.3%. Millions of Americans are desperately looking for a way out of the crisis and Sanders has filled the vacuum on the Left.

A process of crisis and turmoil is underway across the whole of Europe. The lessons of Greece must be taken on board by the Left, to avoid the same mistakes made by the SYRIZA leadership. We provide here the outline of a speech given by Stamatis Karagiannopoulos of the Greek Communist Tendency (the IMT in Greece) during his recent tour of Spain.

In 2015, roughly 1.5 million migrants and refugees were estimated to have arrived in Europe. The response of national leaders has put the Schengen agreement in tatters. In the second part of his series on the contradictions within Europe, Josh Holroyd looks at the refugee crisis.