October 10 at 15.15-16.00 in CEMUS Library – Skype-in from Barcelona with Alejandro Marco Valls – Independence in Catalonia – what it means for the future of democracy in Europe and the world
Federico Demaria writes:
If anyone thinks, says or writes that the Catalan question is easy to understand, I would say that she or he did not understand anything. The question comes from long back and is complex. Catalan independence can appear to a foreign eye, both as a matter of avarice (Catalonia not willing to share its economic wealth with the rest of Spain), and simultaneously as a political force of emancipation (similar, but obviously different to that of the Kurds or Saharawi).
I’ve lived in Barcelona for ten years. I’ve witnessed the cultural, economic and political motivations of contemporary Catalan ‘independetism’ (separatism might be a more common expression for this in English, but not in Latin languages). In response to the referendum that took place on October 1st, I suggest the need for mediation, rather than repression to tackle a political conflict that questions the meaning of democracy itself.
Read more here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/04/why-catalans-want-independence-from-spain/
Photo: Màrius Montón