Originally published in Spanish: «Cataluña: lo posible anterior (I)». Manuel Arias. Revista de Libros. In an entry in his diary, dated on April, 1966, Ricardo Piglia says, by mouth of his alter-ego Emilio Renzi, that he would like sometimes to “go back to certain times in my life, and live them with the awareness I […]
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Dr. 155 and Mr. UDI
Originally published in Spanish. Manuel Jabois. El Pais. On Thursday October 26th, in Barcelona, Carles Puigdemont didn’t abort the declaration of Independence of Catalonia because he didn’t receive from the government guarantees that justice would respect his demands. Twice he wanted to announce elections and renounce his promise of following “the mandate of the Catalan […]
The End of the Catalan Process
Originally published in Spanish: “El final del procés”. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. On 27th of October, the pro-independence parties in the Catalan Parliament, with the opposition absent and without the approval of the parliamentary attorneys, through a secret vote and a ballot box, tricking not only the Spanish constitution but also the Catalan Statute of […]
Nation-Building in the School
Originally published in Spanish: “Hacer nación en la escuela”. Mariano Fernández Enguita. El País. It is vox populi, but it is not even mentioned. If to the shameless manipulation by secessionism you add the faculty’s hypersensitivity, the reaction will be explosive, but this is how it is. The Catalan school system has been exploited. The […]
The Melancholic Withdrawal
Originally published in Spanish: “La retirada melancólica”. Ricardo Dudda. The Objective. It is hard to be optimistic about the Catalan pro-independence movement issue. The Catalan process can last forever because it is a rhetoric, euphemistic, phenomenon; a series of stagings. But its effects on the Catalan society are both real and perceived. While societies are […]
Félix Ovejero’s Speech. 29th October 2017. Barcelona
Right now, plenty of balconies in our city are full with Spanish flags, Catalan flags and European flags, next to each other. Here, in Barcelona, as in other parts of Spain. And this is good, because there is no incompatibility at all. The ones who are displaying their flags are showing their will to expand […]
The UDI Conceals its Defeat
Originally published in Spanish: “La DUI esconde su derrota”. Joaquim Coll. Crónica Global. Before analysing what happened last Friday on the Catalan Parliament, it is important to look carefully at the massive variety show that developed on Thursday, because it was then when the defeat of the separatist policy revealed itself in its true magnitude. […]
A ‘Referendum from below’ that reflects a long ‘Procés from above’
Originally published in Spanish: “Un ‘Referendum dede abajo que refleja un dilatado ‘procés desde arriba’ ‘”. Rubén Díez García. Agenda Pública. A few days ago an interesting article was published that had a certain impact on influential scholars, who are more unfamiliar to this area of study. The authors drew attention to the fact that […]
Francisco Frutos’ Speech on 29th October 2017, Barcelona
Let me use for a moment the adversary’s language. I am a botifler [a traitor to Catalonia]. I am a traitor against to the lies, to the stories you make up every day, from the 1714 story [see point 1 here] to everything else. I am a botifler against the racism you are creating, the […]
Speech delivered by Josep Borrell on 29th October 2017, Barcelona
[In Catalan] I didn’t expect to be with you again here in Barcelona, and we are many more today than last Sunday. I must admit that it’s hard to come again. The truth it I didn’t want to come again. I couldn’t come because in this Autumn day, with this sky so blue, this beautiful […]