Against the new world order. Spanish Communism facing Post-Cold War

Abstract

This study aims to illustrate how the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) approached the immediate Post-Cold War scenario. For this purpose, it analyses the attitudes adopted by the Spanish communists, not only towards Perestroika and the crisis of the Soviet system, but also towards key international events such as the German Unification process, the Gulf crisis and the birth of the European Union. The work underlines how, under Anguita’s leadership, the PCE underwent a left-wise turn leading Anguita to establish his policy on a logic of strong opposition to the new world order characterized by American hegemony and the expansion of the neoliberal model.

Keywords

• partido comunista de españa (pce)
• izquierda unida (iu)
• perestroika
• tratado de maastricht
• julio anguita
• 1989