Armando Fernández Steinko teaches Sociology at the Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain). He has researched on labour and welfare. He is currently working on the relations between the criminal and formal economies. He is member of Izquierda Unida and associate of the FIM.
The project of a modern Spanish welfare state (“finance-capitalist welfare state”) has exhausted itself historically. In March 2011 a small group of young people with an urban / metropolitan background organised a demonstration...[more]
Very unequal realities underlie the visions shared by the European left. Understanding the specificity of the Spanish situation in the current crisis requires taking into account at least two key issues: first, the decline of the...[more]