On Sunday 20th December 2015, Spanish people went to the polls in a tightly contested general election. The results have produced an extremely fragmented parliament, reflecting the class polarisation and radicalisation that has been taking place in Spanish society in recent years.

On Sunday 20th December, Spaniards are called to the polls in what is set to be a momentous election. Arturo Rodriguez analyses the background to these elections – possibly the most important since the fall of the Franco dictatorship in 1975, and a test for PODEMOS.

Over the past year, hundreds of thousands of people in the south east of Turkey have seen their home towns and neighbourhoods destroyed in the face of indiscriminate and barbaric attacks by Turkish armed forces. We publish here a statement by the International Marxist Tendency, calling on our readers to support the struggle of the Kurds.