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Concediti un regalo

Originale: “Regálate un capricho”. Manuel Jabois. El País La parte sorprendente del «procés» è la gente che crede che attraversare il fiume con lo scorpione sulla schiena non comporterà alcun prezzo da pagare. Sono settimane che ricevo sul mio whatsapp istruzioni per fondare la Repubblica della Catalogna. Faccio parte di una trama sentimentale che si muove attraverso […]

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They are under investigation for sedition

Published in Spanish. “Son investigados por delito de sedición” Almacén de Derecho President of the Catalan Regional Division of the Judicial Professional Association “When democracy and fundamental freedoms are in peril, a judge’s reserve may yield to the duty to speak out.” Judicial Ethics Report 2009-2010 European Network of Councils for the Judiciary Barcelona, October […]

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State of exception

On September 6 and 7, as I was watching in amazement the sessions of the Catalan Parliament in which the attempt to legitimize a new and improvised legality was staged, I recalled a reflection by Elias Canetti in his Notes, written in London in 1942, when Great Britain was resisting Hitler’s breakthrough throughout Europe: «Whenever […]

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Lessons from Quebec for Catalan secessionists

Originally published in Spanish. «Lecciones desde Quebec para secesionistas catalanes» Isaac Nahon-Serfaty. Letras Libres. Although the cultural and political context of separatism in Quebec is different from that of the Catalan independence movement, the history of the former could shed light on the future of the latter. Catalan separatist nationalism could afford to learn a […]

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Catalonia

Originally published in Spanish. Jorge San Miguel. Medium. We arrived at Penedès at noon. We told the owner of the house that we are going to a wedding, just in case. Surely we exaggerate. It is a renovated farmhouse, with a white stone tower that rises on a ridge between vineyards. We eat at Avinyonet […]

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In Italiano Voices From Spain

Lezioni dal Quebec per i secessionisti catalani

Originale: “Lecciones desde Quebec para secesionistas catalanes ”. Isaac Nahon-Serfaty. Letras Libres Il nazionalismo separatista catalano potrebbe imparare alcune lezioni dal separatismo del Quebec. Anche se stiamo parlando di due realtà storiche, culturali e politiche diverse, le sconfitte subite dagli indipendentisti della provincia del Quebec in Canada potrebbero illuminare il futuro dei loro coetanei in […]

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