Photo by Joel Tasche on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “La gravedad de los sucesos de otoño”. Roger Senserrich. Politikon. 26th June 2018 Maybe it’s due to the last weekend’s poll at La Vanguardia; maybe because I’m following too many pro-independence militants on Twitter, but I have the feeling that the Catalonian society isn’t becoming aware of the extraordinary seriousness of […]
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La gravità dei fatti dello scorso autunno
Photo by Joel Tasche on Unsplash Originale: “La gravedad de los sucesos de otoño”. Roger Senserrich. Politikon. 26 giugno 2018 Sarà forse per il sondaggio dello scorso fine settimana su La Vanguardia, sarà perché seguo troppi indipendentisti su Twitter, ma ho l’impressione che la società catalana non sia del tutto consapevole della straordinaria gravità dei fatti […]
Iracondo, assolutista e intollerante
Foto: Jeremy Bishop | Unsplash Originale: ‘Iracundo, absolutista e intolerante’. Roger Senserrich. Vozpópuli. 12 maggio 2018 Il fatto che Puigdemont abbia designato con dito bonapartista una persona convinta che il 53% dei catalani che non hanno votato per il secessionismo non siano davvero catalani, fa capire chiaramente che il dialogo è pura pantomima. Permettetemi oggi […]
Irate, absolutist and bigoted
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish.‘Iracundo, absolutista e intolerante’. Roger Senserrich. Vozpópuli. 12th May 2018 Let me start my article today with a quote: “When the homeland is experiencing a moment of national urgency, when the nation is in danger of dissolving as sugar in a glass of milk, when all the bells about […]
The Sedition will be Televised
Originally published in Spanish: «La sedición será televisada» Roger Senserrich. El País. Over the last few months, the members of the Generalitat government have been committing crimes. They have worked to build parallel state infrastructures. They have openly and vocally infringed court orders. They have promoted laws, decrees and agreements that have been rejected as […]
Federazioni e rispetto della legge
Originale: “Federaciones y el cumplimiento de la ley ”. Roger Senserrich. El País El artículo 155 es homologable a lo que vemos en otras democracias desarrolladas. Il 26 giugno 2015, la Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti dichiarava incostituzionale il divieto di matrimonio tra persone dello stesso sesso. La sentenza annullava una modifica alla Costituzione della […]
Seditionaries and the future we all know
Originally published in Spanish. Roger Senserrich. Politikon. This piece will probably change nothing. The preventive imprisonment of Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart is one of those events (one more) for which I could tell the most beautiful story ever heard and still not get anyone to change his previous opinion. No matter how much I […]
Seven viewpoints on 1-O
Published originally in Spanish. Politikon. Considering the exceptional moment we are in, seven editors of Politikon pour their different viewpoints regarding the vote on October 1st, what has happened up to now and what is yet to come. Elena Costas Pérez. Four days before the referendum in Catalonia any diagnostic is bound to be tragic. […]
Foreign in my own country
Published originally in Spanish. Roger Senserrich. Politikon. I think I have said this before, but I always felt as belonging, sentimentally at least, to four countries: Venezuela, England, United States and Catalonia. I was born in Venezuela; I lived there until I was 6. I never went again. First, because I was too young, later […]