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 […]
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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 to commemorate 140th anniversary of Pau Casals’ birth with a month of activities
Article published at Catalan News Agency, 20th September 2016. Barcelona (CNA).- This September marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of Catalan cellist, Pau Casals. A conference given by his […]
Franco’s Suppression of the Catalan Language in 1939.
Watch the history of the suppression of the Catalan language for three hundred years and how the Spanish Language was imposed on a population that mostly spoke only Catalan. Successive […]
