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Catalonia and Spanish nationalism

Our only answer to self-serving nationalisms of every kind is a popular sovereignty that empowers everyone, collectively, to take control of matters of state, whatever its name. Catalana.

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Pablo Casado (front right) attends Spanish National Day military parade in Madrid, October 12,2018. A.Perez Meca/Press Association. All rights reserved.

Manuel Nunes Ramires Serrano, in a forthright but often vague response to our earlier article in Open Democracy, accuses us of a lot of things.  We are not bona fide journalists, we “bend the truth” and we fail in making an argument that “goes beyond ideologies, and values accurate and intelligent debate.”

Surprisingly, there are actually very few factual challenges to us here (though he does assert that we have distorted Franco’s connection to the Spanish flag and the “day of the race”, and that we do not recognise recent promises to establish a truth commission regarding Franco’s crimes).