United Left is a federative political movement in Spain that was first organized as a coalition in 1986, bringing together several left-wing political organizations, grouped primarily around the Communist Party of Spain.
Podemos is a left-wing to far-left political party in Spain. Founded in January 2014 by the political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión as part of the anti-austerity movement in Spain, the party is currently led by Secretary-general Ione Belarra.
María Teresa Rodríguez-Rubio Vázquez is a Spanish politician. Active in United Left in her youth within the platform Espacio Alternativo, in 2008 the organization split from IU. She then participated in the creation of Izquierda Anticapitalista, later renamed as Anticapitalistas. She was a Member of the European Parliament representing Podemos from 2014 to 2015, and was the party's presidential candidate for the 2015 and 2018 Andalusian parliamentary elections. She left Podemos in 2020 and founded the Adelante Andalucía party, being elected to the Parliament of Andalusia in 2022 and leaving her seat at the end of the year.
Corriente Roja is a Spanish Trotskyist political organization, adhering to the International Workers League – Fourth International in 2012. CR defends and supports social struggles, class independence and political gains of the working class in order to establish a republic of workers. CR proposes the construction of a socialist economy, based on workers' democracy and the traditions of the alternative labor movement. According to its mission statement, current Red describes itself as follows:
Corriente Roja will put in place a strategy defined by its anticapitalist Marxist character, radically democratic, internationalist, ecologist and feminist
Miguel Urbán Crespo is a Spanish activist and politician. A longstanding figure of the Trotskyist Izquierda Anticapitalista platform and co-founder of Podemos, he served as Member of the European Parliament from 2015 to 2024, integrated within the European United Left–Nordic Green Left political group.
Alternative Left was a Spanish political party with a socialist ideology formed by the union of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) and the Communist Movement (MC) in 1991.
United Left of Asturias is the Asturian federation of the Spanish left wing political and social movement United Left. Ovidio Zapico is the current General Coordinator. The Communist Party of Asturias is the major member of the coalition.
United Left of Cantabria is the Cantabrian federation of the Spanish left wing political and social movement United Left. Jorge Crespo is the current General Coordinator. The Communist Party of Cantabria and Izquierda Abierta.
Íñigo Errejón Galván is a Spanish political scientist and former politician.
Unidas Podemos, formerly called Unidos Podemos and also known in English as United We Can, was a democratic socialist electoral alliance formed by Podemos, United Left, and other left-wing to far-left parties in May to contest the 2016 Spanish general election. The alliance's official pre-agreement was announced on 9 May 2016 after weeks of negotiations. It was re-styled to the feminine form of its name ahead of the April 2019 Spanish general election.
The Workers' Revolutionary Current is a Trotskyist group in Spain.
Beatriz Gimeno Reinoso is a Spanish politician and LGBTQ rights activist. Since June 2015, she has been a representative for Podemos in the tenth legislative term of the Assembly of Madrid and is responsible for the area of policy of Podemos concerning equality in Madrid. She was the President of the FELGT between 2003 and 2007, during the period in which same-sex marriage was approved in Spain and Madrid was chosen as the holder of Europride 2007.
Revolutionary Anticapitalist Left is a Trotskyist political party in Spain.
Adelante Andalucía was an electoral alliance formed by Podemos Andalusia, United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia, Andalusian Left and Andalusian Spring to contest the 2018 Andalusian regional election. The latter two parties were created in the wake of the dissolution of the Andalusian Party.
Isabel Serra Sánchez is a Spanish activist and politician. She was member of the Podemos Parliamentary Group in the Assembly of Madrid from 2015 to 2021.
Carlos Sánchez Mato is a Spanish politician and economist. A member of United Left and the Madrid City Council, he served as delegate of Economy and Finance in the city government board.
José María González Santos, mononymously known as Kichi, is a Spanish politician and teacher, Mayor of Cádiz from 2015 to 2023.
Adelante Andalucía is an Andalusian nationalist and regionalist political party and coalition led by former Podemos Andalusia leader Teresa Rodríguez. The party was established as a refoundation from the late Adelante Andalucía electoral alliance formed by Podemos and United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia.
Nodo50 is a non-profit internet service provider. It is an autonomous telematic alternative information project aimed at social movements. It provides computer and communication services to individuals, collectives and left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-fascist organisations in Spain and Latin America. The project is managed by the association "Nodo50: Altavoz por la Libertad de Expresión y Comunicación".
