This is not fascism, but it is postfascism. The degree to which the law is used and abused for political purposes in Spain is directly descended from the Franco regime. This week Spain’s show trial […]
Yesterday the trials of Catalonian political prisoners in Spain began. Human Rights Watch has questioned the legitimacy of the trials, asking why “no police officer had been convicted for excessive use of violence during the […]
Today, 12 February, the trial of the Catalonian political prisoners begins in Spain. As the drama unfolds in front of the world, behind the scenes the Guardia Civil and the Spanish National Police will continue […]
This weekend we are posting two articles concerning national independence, in Catalonia and Scotland, by authors we greatly value. There is little to criticise in their analyses. The problem is that both articles define their […]
A year ago was the Catalan independence referendum, which was so brutally repressed by the Spanish government. The concatenation of events in Catalonia and Spain since then have confronted us with a nation that maintains […]
What is becoming increasingly clear is that the Social Democrats have no solutions to Spain´s most pressing problems. Besides a few superficial actions will be the new enforcers of neo-liberalism in Spain. Somehow that has […]
Ignasi Bernat and David Whyte argue that Catalonia’s independence movement is driven by solidarity – and resistance to far-right Spanish nationalists Ignasi Bernat is an academic sociologist and social movement activist based in Barcelona David Whyte, is Professor of Socio-legal […]
The authors write: “The international community still fails to recognise that the region has witnessed an unprecedented revolution in participative democracy that started long before the referendum, and will almost certainly outlast any constitutional settlement.” […]
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