The progressive world meeting was held a few days ago in Barcelona, under the auspices and leadership of Pedro Sánchez. Undoubtedly, a successful turnout that reaffirms the constitution of a political bloc defending democratic and progressive values against the advances of the populist discourse led by Donald Trump. Social democracy and the left of the Global South made themselves heard in an event that had a great symbolic charge of progressive re-empowerment against the chaos, reactionism, and warmongering that seem to dominate current politics. The forum proved relevant, a wake-up call and a raising of the left's flag against the rightward drift that seems to dominate both in Spain and in the world. It was the certification of Pedro Sánchez's benchmark leadership against Trumpism, war, and Israel's hegemony in the Middle East. It reinforced Spain's role, as a benchmark, for those who consider growing inequality and social exclusion as major dynamics to combat in current politics.However, behind the successful call, the enormous significance that the media gave to the Global Progressive Mobilisation, its significant character and the establishment of an alternative narrative, all remained in the realm of the symbolic. There is no relevance to consider in the realm of applied politics. It fulfilled its role in current politics, understood as a game of declarations and counter-declarations that dominates us, but it had no practical and tangible effect. Surely it was not the place. Nor did the left that gathered there provide a new message, a renovating discourse, a left-wing program to apply in the coming years. It cannot be denied that social democracy has lost many supporters in recent decades, both in Europe and in the world. Since the 1990s, it has been changing its realpolitik, they exercised alternation, not alternative, and carried out more or less the same policies as the liberal-conservatives, and did not put into practice, either in form or in substance, any credible program of change.

A crowd of people moves in unison through the long corridors of Hall 8 of the Barcelona Fair as if following a rock star. No one this Friday has generated the expectation of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the great protagonist of the first day of the Global Progressive Mobilisation (GPM). "Progressivism must be united, it must be brave. We will never win by complaining about what the right does, but by convincing with our values and convictions," stressed the former Spanish president just before starting to attend to his followers. Some of them, young enough not to remember him in Moncloa, asked him to make the eyebrow gesture that he exploited so much during his campaign, and he gladly granted it.