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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe extreme right international movement gets ready to fight its next battle in Spain
Hours before the closing of the campaign, an investigation by openDemocracy reveals the widespread international...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFariña: Spain’s Original Cocaine Cowboys
Snow on the Atlantic: How Cocaine Came to Europe describes how a sleepy corner of Spain grew to occupy a vital...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaReconquering Europe? VOX and the extreme right in Spain
The upcoming elections in Spain on the 28th of April will see VOX as the new political protagonist joining the...
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Published in: 50.50International anti-feminist network organises rally in Spain
Globally connected groups are working together to threaten women’s rights – and they’ve landed in Spain for...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#ElectionsSpain2019: Populist radicalisation, Catalonia, and the far-right
Spain is the epitome of political instability, with a 5 party fragmentation and the impossibility of appeasing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Fearless Cities municipalism: experiments in autogestion
For growing numbers of municipalists, new politics means fundamentally reshaping the bundle of relationships that...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhat dam collapses in Europe can tell Brazil
The changes in environmental legalisation to hold the companies accountable is one of the lessons from the European...
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Published in: 50.50Spanish women shoe workers organise to end decades of exploitation
Women workers in the country’s 'footwear capital' say they have endured too many years of job insecurity and wage theft.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia: the trial will be about our ideological freedom
"This case is not about proving that specific acts constitute an offence. It is about the deactivation of an...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?VOX and the Spanish Muslim community: the new “Reconquista” of Spain
This kind of explicit attack, unfortunately familiar in the wider European context we belong to, is something very...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist comedians are laughing at privilege – and it’s funny
Comedy that targets oppressed groups is outdated. These feminists are using humour to speak truth to power.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The rest and the West: thoughts on Brexit and migration. Part One
Why the decisive political space for the Left is not Europe, but an inclusive democratic debate that alone can...
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Published in: Home15M's social and political effects in Spain
General prospects for Spaniards are not promising, and, in many cases, worse than in 2011. So in what sense can it...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU call it copyright, but it is massive Internet censorship and must be stopped
We citizens battling for civil rights on the Internet will meet our obligation and fight the good fight. We’ll stop...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia and Spanish nationalism
Our only answer to self-serving nationalisms of every kind is a popular sovereignty that empowers everyone,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia: two half-truths don't make one truth
Journalists and opinion-makers have a responsibility to inform and explain, not to divide and contribute to the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia and postfascism
A legacy that never went away has risen to the surface in Catalonia. And it explains why the independence movement...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalan National Day: free speech under threat
Otherwise mainstream politicians have stacked the deck against any possibility of negotiating over legitimate...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Two kinds of justice in Spain
The recent conviction of several Basque youths with heavy sentences and the charges against Catalan politicians...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Exception in Catalonia one year after the referendum
What is Catalonian cooperativism’s contribution to independentism? Activists are promoting practical and concrete...