This is a cold war fought by “leaders” willing to maintain their privilege at all costs, to the detriment of a fatigued, divided, and traumatised population.
“The reality is a democratic mass movement increasingly frustrated with successive governments who have sought juridical answers to political problems.”
A general strike had been called across Catalonia and somewhere down there, winding through the new town on the far side of the river, a local march was building.
This is not fascism, but it is postfascism. The degree to which the law is used and abused for political purposes in Spain is directly descended from the Franco regime.
If these three Catalan MEPs are not allowed to participate in the next legislature, Europe will have lost more than three active and pro-European members at their service.
"This case is not about proving that specific acts constitute an offence. It is about the deactivation of an independence movement and of its leadership."
Our only answer to self-serving nationalisms of every kind
is a popular sovereignty that empowers everyone, collectively, to take control
of matters of state, whatever its name. Catalana.
