Spain’s Conflict With Catalonia Replays Britain’s Failed Conflict With Ireland
When Sinn Féin emerged with an electoral landslide from the December 1918 general election in the then United Kingdom ofContinue Reading
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Spanish Police Attack Voters During Catalan Independence Referendum
It’s turning into a day of shame for Spain as the reactionary government in Madrid seeks to deny the CatalanContinue Reading
Mad Dogs And Englishmen: Brexit Britain Threatens War With Spain
It seems that the empire-nostalgic British have finally gone off the deep-end as right wing commentators – and former governmentContinue Reading
Over One Million Catalans Rally For Independence In Barcelona
If one were to believe the recent polling in Catalonia it seemed that the country’s popular push for independence fromContinue Reading
Ireland And Catalonia, Some Historic Parallels
In the general election of December 1918 the revolutionary Irish republican and nationalist party, Sinn Féin, took 73 of theContinue Reading
Catalan Nationalists Breaking Under The Pressure?
Despite the recent general election landslide for Nicola’s Sturgeon’s SNP in Scotland, independence remains an unlikely prospect in the nearContinue Reading
25000 Protest Galician Language Rights
A short post to note last Sunday’s demonstration in Santiago de Compostela, the capital of the Iberian region of Galicia,Continue Reading
Prosecutions In Catalonia, Political Revolution In Scotland
The newly authoritarian tone of politics and government in Spain becomes more evident with every passing week. Following a rangeContinue Reading
Catalan Politics Enters New Phase
As always one must treat news reports from Russia Today (RT) with a certain degree of scepticism given the avowedContinue Reading
Catalonia’s Hesitant Nationalists
“If anyone can the Catalans can” or so goes the saying amongst political activists in those minority communities of theContinue Reading
United Parties In Catalonia, EU Citizenship In Scotland
Despite the financial scandal erupting around its former leader and his family the ruling Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) party hasContinue Reading
Republican Left Leads The Poll In Catalonia
With all the focus on the success of Sinn Féin and various Left parties and candidates in the European andContinue Reading
Some Basque Lessons
This article on the resilience of the indigenous language of the historic Basque nation in north-eastern Spain and neighbouring France isContinue Reading
A Tale Of Two Languages
Kate Fennell in the Irish Times examining the Basque Country and the successful struggle for language rights in that IberianContinue Reading
ETA Bolsters Faltering Basque Peace Process
The Basque insurgent organisation ETA has carried out a symbolic act of arms decommissioning in front of international observers asContinue Reading
The Scots, Second-Class Europeans?
The Scottish blogger Wee Ginger Dug has done some fantastic journalistic work recently analysing and translating political and media commentaryContinue Reading
The Winds Of Change – Catalonia And Québec
The drive for autonomy seems to be in the air. We begin with news from the resurgent Iberian nation ofContinue Reading
Inés Del Rio Prada Freed In Basque Country
Inés del Rio Prada, a member of ETA (the Basque separatist organisation) and Spain’s longest serving political prisoner, has beenContinue Reading
Hispanicise And Anglicize
Interesting article in the Irish Times on Monday examining attempts by the anti-separatist regional government in the Balearic Islands toContinue Reading
The Catalan Way – The View From The Baltics
An opinion piece from Lithuania on the Baltic-inspired background story to the recent “human chain” or Catalan Way formed byContinue Reading
The Catalans Lead The Way!
The resurgent strength of Catalan nationalism is a political phenomenon that has taken the peoples of the Iberian Peninsula andContinue Reading
Catalonia, Scotland And Québec
Couple of articles looking at the faltering fortunes of the sovereignty movements in Scotland and Québec when compared to theContinue Reading
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