Aquí vull respondre a certes crítiques que he llegit sobre el projecte de Solidaritat Catalana per la independència i els seus membres i vull fer una valoració positiva ara que ens trobem gairebé a la línia de sortida de les eleccions al Parlament. Certament que les coses es podien haver fet d’una altra manera però objectivament estem a punt d’encarar les eleccions en gairebé les circumstàncies més favorables que ens situen en un dels millors escenaris possibles per a l’independentisme.
Primer, el TC ha dictat sentència just abans de les eleccions, …
Things are moving fast in Catalonia. Today Joan Laporta, Uriel Bertran and Alfons López Tena have announced (video in Catalan) the creation of Solidaritat Catalana per la Independència urging all Catalan parties to form a coalition and commit to declare the independence of Catalonia should this coalition win the Catalan elections in November. Reagrupament have announced already that since this is the formula they’ve always defended they can count with them.
Back in 1906 a coalition called Solidaritat Catalana joined forces of all Catalan parties to fight Spanish centralism and regain …
The day after the massive Catalan independentist demonstration in Barcelona a few thousand Spain supporters celebrated in Barcelona the success of the Spanish national football team at the World Cup.
Their celebrations ended up with 21 people arrested. The Catalan riot police had to stop the supporters after causing damage to the street furniture in Plaça Espanya and burning several of the gardens in the Barcelona Fair in Montjuïc.
Here you can see a photo report of the “celebrations” and here you can watch a video.
Photo J Borràs
Un dels comentaris més repetits a twitter en acabar la manifestació independentista de dissabte era: “I ara què?” per a mi aquesta pregunta és trivial però vistos els precedents entenc que per a una majoria de catalans no ho és. A Catalunya tenim una majoria social independentista capaç de treure 1 milió i mig de persones al carrer en una tarda de Juliol però després a les eleccions catalanes guanya CiU i a les espanyoles el PSOE de Catalunya treu 25 escons que són sistemàticament utilitzats en contra de Catalunya. …
Today the whole statute sentence has been published, a handful of Spanish judges have decided that Catalonia is not a nation. This is not the worst, since we already know Catalonia is a nation regardless of what they think. The problem is that this Statute is a major step back from the existing one and will have terrible practical consequences against the tiny achievements gained since since the monarchical restoration that guaranteed a certain social cohesion in Catalonia .
One of the main reasons why Catalan is still alive today is …