Madrid executive and Socialist party to call snap election in Catalonia in January 2018.
Spanish government and opposition PSOE agree on taking control of Catalan presidency, public TV and police
Direct rule of Catalonia is taking shape. The Spanish government and the main opposition party in (...)
The Spanish People’s Party (PP) government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has decided to implement direct rule in Catalonia.
In implementing article 155 of the Spanish constitution, which allows central government intervention in regional governments, Rajoy has the full support of the (...)
Madrid will press ahead with suspending autonomy on Saturday after Catalan leader refuses to abandon independence push.
The Spanish government is to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy and impose direct rule after the region’s president refused to abandon the push for independence that has led to (...)
Spanish govt ignores calls for dialogue and responds that Article 155 of Spanish Constitution will be invoked.
The Catalan president invited his Spanish counterpart to open a dialogue and said that the Catalan parliament had not voted on the declaration of independence on October 10. He made (...)
’Massive’ demonstration planned in Barcelona on Saturday to ’defend rights and freedoms’
Platform for Democracy, a group including 90 organizations and trade unions, organize protest against the arrest of pro-independence leaders
Civil society organizations, trade unions and other entities from (...)
Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart will already sleep in jail tonight.
The leaders of two of the main pro-independence civil society organizations have been sent to prison without bail on sedition charges. A Spanish judge decided to imprison Jordi Sànchez, president of the Catalan National Assembly (...)
Oct 16 2017—NEWS—Puigdemont calls decision “very bad news”; ANC releases pre-recorded video message from Jordi Sánchez.
National High Court judge Carmen Lamela jailed the chairmen of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), Jordi Sánchez, and Omnium Cultural, Jordi Cuixart, on remand on Monday night, (...)
Catalan president asks his Spanish counterpart to stop “repression” but does not clarify whether or not he declared independence.
The Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, asks the Spanish president, Mariano Rajoy, to stop the “repression” against Catalonia and calls for a two-month negotiation (...)
Catalan Premier Carles Puigdemont officially declared an independent Catalan republic on October 10, only to announce a suspension in its implementation to allow for talks with Madrid.
The harsh reply of the conservative People’s Party (PP) government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy came two (...)
In the local elections on 1 October Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party won 38 per cent of the votes. The major rightwing opposition party, the PSD only won 16 per cent and lost control of 8 cities. Abstention was 45 per cent.
Despite the predominance of local factors in the choice of the vote, (...)
Antoine Larrache of l’Anticapitaliste (newspaper of the NPA, France) spoke to Catalan left activist Andreu Coll after the demonstration against Catalan independence on Sunday 8 October 2017 in Barcelona.
Antoine Larrache – What is the political meaning of this event?
Andreu Coll – The (...)
As Catalonia prepares to declare independence we examine the history and politics behind its independence movement.
The battle around the October 1 independence referendum — called by the Catalan parliament but banned by Spain’s highest court — has become one of the most dramatic European (...)
They’re offering a responsible alternative to the two sets of flag-wavers on the question of independence for Catalonia.
Madrid—Halfway between Barcelona and Madrid by high-speed train, the city of Zaragoza proved for one day last month how simple a solution to the crisis in Catalonia should (...)
Conservatives: Overestimating their Popularity
“For a Germany in which we live well and happily.” Maybe it was just this less than catchy campaign slogan that cost Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU so dearly at the polls; leaving the party at a record low of 26.8 per cent of the total vote. What (...)
After referendum, protesters in Calella march on hotel housing Spanish police, while thousands demonstrate in Barcelona.
Like much of Catalonia, the Hotel Vila in Calella was shuttered on Tuesday morning, its rooms empty, its doors locked and a sign reading Hotel Tancat (hotel closed) stuck to (...)
The prime minister has turned what should have been another little-noticed unofficial poll into a conflict that evoked memories of the civil war.
On Sunday, I watched innocent people being beaten up, pulled by their hair and thrown down stairs – just for trying to express their opinion in a (...)
People went on strike and took to the streets against the October 1 repression
Catalonia woke up in a different way, today. All cities and towns in the country shut down and people took to the streets in protest against Spain’s police violence during the independence referendum. The strike was (...)
Two million Catalans braved the threat of a police boot in the face to demand independence. As with Scotland and Greece, this was a modern, cosmopolitan form of nationalism.
The first group that tried to build the barricade were schookids. They linked the crash barriers together across the (...)
More than 40 unions and Catalan associations called a region-wide strike for Tuesday, after a major police crackdown on a banned independence referendum.
In a statement released late on Sunday, UGT and CCOO, Spain’s biggest unions, the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), a powerful (...)
October 1 has passed, closing a period of the shared history between Catalonia and the Spanish state and beginning an uncertain future. It was a day when all the tension building over the five-year independence process came to a head.
The numbers speak volumes. 2,262,424 votes cast. With an (...)
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