Tag Archives: Catalan Independence

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The embattled vote on Catalan independence in Spain has turned the thoughts of many to the spiny problem of peoples and fatherlands. This is a subject, of course, which frequently touches our discourses in the New Right. It is fitting this should be so, given the weight we tend to put on “identity,” “sovereignty,” “nationhood,” “peoples,” and like concepts. Read more …

Published: October 3, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethnonationalism, European unity, Italy, John Bruce Leonard, New Right, North American New Right, originals, pan-Europeanism | 6 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 196
The 2017 German Federal Election & the Catalan and Kurdish Independence Referendums

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Catalonia Votes for Independence, Part 2
A Massive Act of Disobedience

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On Sunday, the 9th of November (9N), an Independence Referendum was held in Catalonia. Read more …

Published: November 12, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Catalonia, North American New Right, originals, Spain | 4 Responses

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Catalonia Votes for Independence, Part 1

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View of one of the two ‘legs’ of a gigantic “V” (for ‘Vote’ and ‘Victory’) formed in Barcelona last Sept. 11, Catalonia’s National Day. Demonstrators drew the Catalan flag: four red stripes on a yellow background.

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Catalonia’s independence is one of the five top challenges the EU is currently facing. A nation of 10 million people has held four years of huge mobilizations, leading to “Europe’s biggest rally ever” on Sept. 11th of this year. With the strongest national language among Europe’s “unofficial languages” (or at least, without State national language status), Catalan shows is robust and healthy after centuries of persecution by both French ‘Universalism’ and Spanish centralism.