The other side of the coin from state terror is corruption. Spain: Rampant corruption, abuse of women, state terror in Catalonia and the Basque Country. Another model EU nation. Chris Bambery is author and broadcaster. […]
As we observe the inexorable decline of Social Democrat parties throughout Europe (Britain seems to be about to follow), one can literally see how once progressive parties have been destroyed through terminal neo-liberal cancer. And […]
Austerity, corruption, and opportunism has wrecked Spain’s post-Franco political system. Nationalism is now the predominant political factor. Add to this the recrudescence of fascism and one has the same failure of Liberal Democracy that has […]
Hundreds of thousands marched through the streets of Barcelona on 18 November in defence of democracy and their right to independence. Chris Bambery is author and broadcaster. Co-author (with George Kerevan) of Catalonia Reborn: How […]
This is the sort of democracy that the EU embodies. Chris Bambery is author and broadcaster. Co-author (with George Kerevan) of Catalonia Reborn: How Catalonia Took on the Corrupt Spanish State and the Legacy of […]
This week Spain’s show trial against twelve Catalonian leaders of its independence movement concluded. BRAVE NEW EUROPE is posting two articles on the topic today; this report of the week’s proceedings and an analysis of […]
As the Spanish prosecution sums up its arguments against twelve leaders of the Catalan movement for self-determination one can hardly find words to describe this travesty of justice. Chris Bambery did find one: Bollocks. Chris […]
The Catalans, like the Greeks before them, are learning what to expect from the EU. The Spanish government, now led by the Social Democrats, is learning that you can defy justice in the EU, when […]
Much is changing in Europe – seemingly. The question is, are changes such as the struggles in Catalonia and Scotland for self-determination going to end in true political, economic, and social change, or simply in […]
With European Union elections on the weekend and all the talk of the noble achievement’s of the EU, if one looks around the Union one finds the opposite, brutal police repression in France against the […]
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