STRIVING FOR INDEPENDENCE – WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Catalonia to become an independent state has nothing to do with nationalism”. Rather, Romeva says, it has to do with the democratic deficit in Spain, the desire to solve day-to-day […]
Tag Archives: Civil War
We are a nation. We decide: Catalonia calling
Article published by CounterFire. The aftershocks of Franco’s Spain are re-emerging and clashing with 21st-century tensions, notes Chris Bambery The Speaker of the UK parliament is in trouble. First, […]
The Ghosts Spain Tries to Ignore
Article by Dan Hancox, published at The New York Times, December 8th 2016. “In Spain,” wrote the poet Federico García Lorca, “the dead are more alive than the dead of […]
Catalonia: DNA tests to identify Spain’s civil war dead
Article published at Aljazeera, 8th September 2016 Catalonia starts DNA project to identify some of the 114,000 who disappeared during Spain’s civil war and dictatorship. Spain’s Catalonia region has launched […]
Franco’s Last Breath: On Catalan Independence
Article published by The Volunteer, 25th August 2016, by Eric Smith Catalonia’s desire for independence has resurged in recent years, thanks in large part to the intransigence of the central […]
