Counter-Currents
Tag: Catalan Independence
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Photo courtesy of Liz Castro on Flickr.
Photo courtesy of Liz Castro on Flickr.
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How much does White Nationalism have in common with other, more local nationalisms? Is it possible to use popular independence movements for our purposes? Is it possible to use, either in their place or additionally, the petty nationalisms of the current states for our purposes? (more…)
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Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.
Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.
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A series of daily demonstrations have been taking place throughout Spain since the beginning of this month, including in the ethnically differentiated regions, in front of the offices of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), Spain’s “socialist” party.
Background
In the last Spanish general election in July of this year, the PSOE lost. (more…)
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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. (more…)
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On Sunday, the 9th of November (9N), an Independence Referendum was held in Catalonia. (more…)
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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.
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.
