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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A story of Italian neophytes and Spanish constructors
What happens in these two countries matters and deserves much more attention. It is also time to re-assess the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The unexpected rise of Pedro Sánchez
The rise of PSOE to government does not guarantee deep political change in Spain, but it makes Unidos Podemos a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s historic motion of no-confidence: how can we understand the ousting of seemingly indestructible Mariano Rajoy, in just 72 hours?
Electoral considerations aside, for now, many of those who fought so hard for this day to come will take comfort...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Precariat spring: Spanish social movements get ready for a new cycle of mobilisation
During the last month pensioners, women and housing activists suffering from precarious conditions have taken to the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Restore Julian Assange’s access to visitors and to the outside world
We call upon all citizens of good conscience to ask the Ecuadorian authorities to restore Assange’s access to the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“I wouldn’t talk about nationalism, but communitarianism”
Interview with the Spanish philosopher and Podemos Senate candidate, on the nation-state, nationalisms, populism...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The rising tide for the democratic control of water in Barcelona
Barcelona’s battle to take its water company back under public ownership is reaching its climax in the courts and at...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?At the roots of the nationalism of the rich
If we take the cases of Catalonia, Flanders and northern Italy, the formation of the nationalism of the rich...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"We need a feminist constitution"
How is anyone going to go to work if no-one does the ironing, cooks, or looks after the children? I think putting...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The untenable technophobia of the Left
On hate speech, fake news, anonymity and "new" politics. A warning. Español
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Published in: HomeMeeting Lofa
“In the Kenyan camp there are second generation and third generation refugees,” I said, “Can you imagine somebody...
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Published in: HomeLet’s not ‘politicise’: let’s skill
"We are very aware, when it comes to the whole Greek experience, that one of the problems the political left faces...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalan elections: all that for that?
Facilitators, middlemen, discrete openings so that both sides could start to talk to – and not scream at – each...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia and the theatres of recognition
Isn’t it the case that fellow Europeans not only have the right to comment on the affairs of their neighbours but...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia’s December 21 elections
It is time for the Spanish establishment to realise that their country, like any other democracy, can’t be...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?South Tyrol should not be giving lessons to Barcelona
The governor of South Tyrol recently sent a letter to the Spanish and Catalan presidents highlighting his region's...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Carmena's city: from 2011 to the present day, how Madrid tried to change the world
The host city for Transeuropa, surfing or drowning in the waves of governing for change?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia: political prisoners or an extrajudicial elite?
It is difficult to see why actions taken by the government in Madrid ought to be regarded as a curb on dissent, and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia and Spain: a view from the region's backcountry
“We lost against Aragón in the 15th century, against the Bourbons in the 18th century, and against Franco in the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Foolish consistency: Spain’s Kosovo-Catalonia conundrum
By equating Kosovo with Catalonia, Spanish leaders reveal themselves as unable to distinguish between legitimate...