The global battle against the extreme right, as dubbed by El Confidencial, is unfolding in Barcelona. On April 17 and 18, the capital of Catalonia is hosting a summit named “Global Progressive Mobilization,” bringing together figures from international social democracy to show that this movement “is not dead and buried by the shareholder wave” sweeping the planet, explains the conservative Madrid-based media outlet.
The summit aims to cover a wide range of topics, “from defending democracy and a world order based on norms to regulating new technological powers, social cohesion, equality, and environmental defense,” reports left-leaning daily El País. Leading political figures such as Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum and the President of the European Council António Costa, party leaders, and civil society personalities are expected to attend.
The goal, as rephrased by centrist Barcelona journalist La Vanguardia, is to “mobilize the progressive family” to act as a counterbalance to the strategies of US President Donald Trump and the rise of the extreme right on the geopolitical stage.
According to El País, “the progressive family has experienced a period of great political difficulties in recent years, marked, among other things, by the loss of support among the working classes in the most prosperous democracies in the northern hemisphere – who have turned to populist national discourse in the face of economic, social, or identity issues – and the working classes of Latin American democracies.”
La Vanguardia also notes that unlike social democrats, the extreme right has shown in the past its “effectiveness” in gathering its main leaders, as seen in Madrid in 2024 when launching the campaign for European elections.
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