desperate hopes, Admit self-determination referendum in Catalonia

Batet grateful that the minister be expressed as normal people call things by their name (it speaks of "Catalan conflict") and show lends itself to dialogue with the Government. It is appreciated. it is always better to contemplate the dour, arrogant gestures of those who believe that the answer to the Catalan "challenge" is sent to the Civil Guard.

Another thing is the viability of the vagarosamente announced as if it were a realization: a federalist reform of the EC to  Catalunya happier in Spain . It's a nice hope, but also desperate. It seeks to disguise the Catalunya refusal to recognize the right to decide whether to continue in Spain or not. Because the problem is there in the budget that legitimizes the hypothetical reform of the EC. If the Catalans have a right of self - determination, that is to decide whether they want to be "happier" in Spain and its Constitution or "most unfortunate" outside. The convoluted conceptual castles armed to elucidate such a complex issue come down with the Scottish breath.

However, although we are not in that box but in the pure beginning. Talk of reforming the EC 85 deputies is unrealistic. And although they were many more.This Constitution is worded so that its reform needs complicated procedures and qualified parliamentary majorities that today is far from gathering. The front antireformist will further reinforced by the reaction of the CCAA object to bilateral relacioness State-Catalunya. Do not forget that this is the Constitution "coffee for all".  

The commendable government's willingness to dialogue is overshadowed by the existence of political prisoners and exiles. And that has not yet entered into action Borrell device. Inertia and former complicity with the repressive policies of the PP government, including support for the 155, make now the PSOE deems appropriate to speak of "normalizing" the situation without ending the prosecution of independence, without releasing the political prisoners and allow exiles to return. 

But such is not realistic. In a rule of law there can be no political prisoners. 

In those terms facing the Generalitat negotiations with the government. Upon learning of the proposed constitutional reform Batet, Torra replied that welcomes all proposals,  but the Govern "part 1-O" .You want to say this will be soon , but in principle, is a reference to the mandate of independence referendum result 1-O that the central government could not even heard prevent but only repress so unusual brutality that delegitimized the cause saying defend. And to make clear the idea, the Govern CUP emplaced and regain independence parties unilateral track.

As in the stories of vendettas inherited from families whose origins transmitted clashes have forgotten, here some governments inherit conflicts that start situations also forgotten. And yet, it is a simple matter, like this: Admit self-determination referendum in Catalonia as those held in Quebec and Scotland. Nothing else. 

And everything will be resolved

If you are not testing, they are manufactured

In a country where Interior Minister practiced the dirty war against separatism and disseminates false news against their adversaries. In the official Web site of "intelligence" and espionage does not make clear what their relationship with a police informer who is accused of having planned an attack against defenseless civilians. 

In which various government party officials are accused of falsifying documents and illegally financed . 

In which the prime minister, suspected of collecting bonuses in B, sends messages of encouragement to criminals and allegedly lying in court to testify . 

In which judges do not need evidence to imprison people. 

In which the authorities steal, lie and abuse at close range. That tax offenses are invented. 

In which the government imposes veto parliamentary debates. 

In which false documents are filtered to incriminate opposition parties how we can again and again. 

In which the rulers directly threaten citizens to throw them up judges who obey what the power. 

In which some incriminating evidence against the rulers disappear mysteriously from government departments and the others are destroyed with a hammer . 

In which all statistical data are distorted 

.In which it arbitrarily imprisons tweeters, titireteros or singers for expressing 

opinions. 

In which plainclothes policemen assault peaceful citizens. In which the rulers accuse the victims of police violence used against having police. In which the security forces hide their identification and falsify records of stop and search.

In that country, what assurance have citizens that when the Civil Guard enters the headquarters of the Generalitat and Omnium, looking for

 The dictatorship of the  B155 and the band of thieves SESTA and to cries for intervention by the international community to protect civilians from abuse and dispossession practiced by association with criminal intent or calling party PP government.

Ramon Cotarelo

What is happening today in Catalonia is the bane of the conqueror: the people it intends to submit resists and refuses to submit to the yoke. Then try to apply on insumiso i know the techniques that work on itself: inflict violence and humiliation. SO WE SEE THE SWISS

For those who read in French, published today in Switzerland: https://1dex.ch/2018/01/catalogne-lignominie-marche/#.WmWWy4wN9QB.twitter

PUBLISHED IN A SWISS DAILY 

And this is the translation in English:

For that you read in French, published today in Switzerland: https://1dex.ch/2018/01/catalogne-lignominie-marche/#.WmWWy4wN9QB.twitter PUBLISHED IN A diaro Suizo  And this is the Castilian translation: " If one were to draw a line in the Spanish character, what would it be? Spanish is basically in the collective unconscious, who crushed civilizations of South America. A conqueror, a warrior, a proud soldier of his battles.

In addition, the Spaniards, in their opinion , have never known defeat. Some setbacks, at most. The kind of battle is not important: he is a soldier! A warrior underlying reason for existence in the confrontation, the annihilation of the other and humiliation which has undergone. This is a man, a bull or a mill, is indifferent. He has overcome, he is strong and brave! That the fight is unequal, ridiculous or burlesque does not care. Its purpose is to show its value has shot down ridiculing. And if you lose a battle? deletes the event memory and history. Spanish is a character in the Iberian mythology: it is not a particular region. But the region that best fits this description is the historical Castilla, or the government of Madrid.

 There's where the stench emanates a testosterone. However, there is a remarkable constant: Castro was Galician, Franco was Galician, Rajoy is Galician, Hitler ... Ah, no, it was not!He was Austrian. "The Spains" are the countries where the sun sets, as the Romans said.Will the country where you lie? And that is Catalan? Its historical legacy makes him a tradesman. The Phoenician, the Venetian of the Iberian Peninsula. primarily because his hereditary right has forced him to do so: The right of "hereu" which is nothing more than older children inherit everything and properties are not shared. 

This forced the children to settle in the city and become bourgeois. It is from this point that urban, commercial and industrial tissue becomes denser in Catalonia. When Castilla opens the monopoly of trade with the Americas in the late 18th century, Catalonia is prepared: the economic boom. In addition, the decree of Felipe V prohibiting Catalan politics does nothing but encourage the economic and intellectual activism. 

Catalonia is a land of welcome since ancient times. Migration flows across the Mediterranean soon made this region a haven for many people. This mixture and these migrations are aconstituent part of cultural and economic wealth in Catalonia. For example: during the inquisition, Count of Barcelona was the only one who punished the perpetrators of genocide in the Jewish Quarter of Barcelona. So how do coexist two societies, two such diametrically different mentalities? One hierarchical and absolutist, when the people fear the power and complies with rules that did not live the

Industrial Revolution, which led the counter-reform ignoring the Enlightenment. And the other composed of merchants, craftsmen and minstrels, where power is the ability to negotiate, which has experienced the market revolution addition to the Industrial Revolution, who practiced tolerance, stimulated innovation and has made democracy a natural and shared reality. What is happening today in Catalonia is the bane of the conqueror: the people it intends to submit resists and refuses to submit to the yoke. Then try to apply on insumiso i know the techniques that work on itself: inflict violence and humiliation.

Humiliation ... Erected in Spanish institution by the government through the application of Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution. This violence by the state and legalized by the state. Thus it enables the media, politicians, people from the street, intimidating, insulting and belittling the Catalans. As in the Franco era, when blessed by the current government, since it allowed to despise and oppress each other legally. For submission daily. Behave regarding who should undergo the most contemptuous condescension. In the form of the foulest racism.

Did you know? In the Franco period, languages other than Castilian were forbidden. When one person spoke one of the forbidden, Catalan, Basque, Galician languages, was repressed hard way:.. "Tell me about Christian history to show the difference between the conqueror and the barbarian today is the same today, this type of practice is again allowed. According to Ramón Blazquez, the avalanche of indignities and humiliations arising from the application of Article 155 was scheduled by the government. it is persistent and violent in the press, especially television and social networks. Even the Basque country, he says during the most violent periods of terrorism did not suffer such kind of humiliations, humiliations, insults, insults and outrages.

There are two sides in this torrent of ignominy: the first is front and primary. It is insulting and publicly scorn when known and veteran journalist Ana Rosa Quintana comes directly to the vice president of the Catalan Government, Oriol Junqueras, of "asshole" or when the well known journalist Eduardo Inda qualify directly to the president of the Catalan government, Carles Puigdemont of "shit". To this must be added the dubious quality of various discussion groups discussion forums or entertainment that are released to a race of insult and ignominy.

The second face of this shame and perhaps worse, is the media manipulation. Heavily orchestrated in the press, opinion pieces, editorials and sobreexportada all news agencies, coordinated way it should be, the anti Catalan directory is quite unanimous in the terms used: independence challenge, illegal referendum coup, cowards , indoctrination against the central government ... the violence of the attacks, accusing the shameless lies and the permissiveness of the authorities towards this worthy situation to trigger many criminal cases for defamation, shows how far the government squires Madrid is determined to sink into contempt and humiliation the Catalan people without any ethical limit.

Medieval front this will make the enemy lose honor, impotence and weakness of the Spanish government is recognized. From the moment that makes every effort to kill the Catalan people humiliating him, he does not realize that their values do not match those of the Catalans. The Catalans are stubborn, cautious and resilient. Three hundred years ago the Spanish attempts to compel by force. But it is inevitable: Catalonia will be independent or not. The Catalans are wedded to the idea of a republic at least as much as the Spaniards are what the dictatorship. The Catalans know, and especially feel very deeply in his soul, his health is independence. They can not live in Spain because their government will always be treated as a colony.

The Catalans know that one day they will live, they or their children in their country and share their democratic and respectful to everyone who wants to be Catalan values. 
And the Spaniards know it too ... "

We ignore the campaign of fear

I received this article on the current economic study. 
In short: We ignore the campaign of fear Unionists 155. 
   * XR * The Government and its related media, want to condition the vote of the Catalans to 21D trying to scare the economic issue, blaming the process of a false deadlock economic.Objective data fully demonstrate the opposite, and have been these years, where more has grown the Catalan economy and has internationality, partly thanks to the work of economic offices located abroad, misnamed embassies, which have helped companies Catalan to export their products and attract foreign investment Some data completely dismantled economic fear campaign: -


El Prat airport received October 2017, at the climax of the process, almost 4% more passengers compared to October last year: https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies / Airport-de-barcelona -the-meadow-register-to-loctubre-41-million-of-passenger-with-a-increase-of-39-2 / -The port of Barcelona grows 35% over October 2017: https: / /www.ara.cat/economia/situacio-politica-Port-Barcelona-loctubre_0_1906609421.html



-Catalonia is at record levels in export and attracting foreign investment: 65,142 http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20170220/42177150206/cataluna-registra-nuevo-record-de-exportaciones-en-2016-con- -millones.htmlhttp: //www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcelona/20170721/424278997144/las-exportaciones-catalanas-registran-un-nuevo-record-en-mayo-con-un-aumento-del-15. html -Catalonia created this year almost 10,000 companies, 8 times more than those who have "gone": https: //www.naciodigital.cat/noticia/140953/catalunya/creat/vuit/cops/empreses/2017/marxat/ 1-o  .  



In addition, this "leak enterprises", which refers only to change headquarters, does not affect the work or occupation tax revenues of the Catalan government. Even a daily reference Spanish economy as economist recognizes that the "march" of companies in Catalonia has a near - zero impact: http://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/8658427/10/17/Que -Impactos- eCONOMIC Reduce text <br> -have-la-fuga-de-empresas de Cataluna-.html - most of these companies have changed their fiscal, he has been under pressure from the Spanish government threatened them with reprisals if not they did, and with an express decree of the Spanish government to facilitate the departure of Catalonia: http: //www.elperiodico. 


SEAT even acknowledged receiving pressure from the government of the PP and the King to change their headquarters: https://www.ara.cat/economia/Seat-Martoell-pressions-seu_0_1889811184.html -The unemployment rate in Catalonia to 3 quarter 2017 is 12.5%: https://www.datosmacro.com/paro-epa/espana-comunidades-autonomas/cataluna almost 4 points lower than the set state where it stands at 16.4 %: https://www.datosmacro.com/paro-epa/espana. 



Therefore, there are more people working in percentage in Catalonia than in the rest of the state, and also the average wage of workers is higher in Catalonia than in the state. This makes pensions are much more assured in Catalonia than in Spain because there are more contributors and a greater amount quoted. Recall that pensions are paid with current workers listed. -the Catalan overnight stays in hotels fell only 2.7% in October over the previous year which reached record highs, becoming the second best October in history: https: // www. naciodigital.cat/noticia/143253/ocupacio/hotelera/catalana/obt/segona/millor/dada/historia/durant/octubre

WHAT IF hurts the Catalan economy:

-the Catalan fiscal deficit, 16.000 million per year to be each year from Catalonia to Madrid do not return. Even daily españolistas recognize it as expansion or world and voices of the Spanish government: http://www.expansion.com/economia/2017/09/29/59cd50b8ca47412c6d8b45c1.html; http://www.elmundo.es/economia/macroeconomia/2017/10/02/59d12a9346163f9b728b45cf.html -The permanent boycott of the Spanish government to make the Mediterranean corridor, and Spain radial idea of where you want to centralize all infrastructure Madrid: http://www.elnacional.cat/es/politica/la-ue-constata-que-por-fomento-tiene-prioridad-el-corredor-pasillo_105422_102.html



-The Spanish health minister did not defend the candidacy of Bcn to delay the presentation AME had to do on September 25 in Brussels: http: //www.eleconomista.es/sanidad/noticias/8632041 / 09/17 / Spain- delay-la-presentation-de-la-application-of-Barcelona-a-seat-de-la-Agency-European-of-Medicamento.html, and professor of Pharmacology at UAB accused the Spanish government had not moved not a single finger to the European Medicines Agency wound up in Barcelona: http://www.elperiodico.com/es/barcelona/20171120/laporte-critica-candidatura-aem- Government-rajoy-6436285

-The government of the PP has been polished in 5 years the whole pension fund, 68,000 million euros, and used it to buy government bonds http://www.publico.es/economia/futuro-pensiones- rajoy-melts -a part -safety-social.html. No one euro in the social security fund, and now pensions are financed with loans to banks, which will make from 2018/2019 the extra payments are eliminated and the amount of the pension is reduced http: / /www.expansion.com/juridico/actualidad-tendencias/2016/03/08/56df177bca4741eb388b45ac.html

-The Spanish state has invested only aa Catalonia 2016 10.7% this investment, eight points below the GDP contribution of Catalonia makes the whole state (18% of GDP): https: / /www.ara .cat / economics / pressupostos_generals_de_l-estat-Montoro-Congres-inversions-Catalunya_0_1406259464.html  And this low investment is constant each year, representing Catalonia investments only receives half of what it brings to the Spanish state. In addition, the Spanish government executed only 35% of the budget, making the actual investment is still much lower: http://www.elnacional.cat/es/politica/estado-ejecucion-infraestructuras- catalunya-2016_162615_102 .html                                          Carlos Jordan karles_home@hotmail.com

Catalonia and our particular "rule of law" (I)

Antonio Maira 
Rebellion

Catalonia: the revolution, step by step

A few days ago I read a quote from Lenin addressing the Bolsheviks who more or less said, "when processes are vertiginous can not try to lead them , but we can not afford to leave us behind." 

As I understand it means, more or less, than in emergency response is a strategic issue, not tactical. Or, in any case, both at once. Know where to go but do not get carried away. And less by the enemy. A step forward, two steps back. I remember that phrase was uttered between the February Revolution and the October Revolution of 1917. If my memory is faithful among those months in which Lenin wrote one of his main Marxism contributions, the theory of imperialism: "Imperialism, top of capitalism "phase. Maximum present, by the way.


That same -Set a strategic objective and adapt the tactics of the enemy movements, are doing the Catalans. That is, the democratically elected parliament, the president and his advisers. Also the parties that had included among its electoral objectives to promote the independence of Catalonia. For example, the CUT. They have scrupulously complied popular for those who have been elected mandates. They have also followed obviously a "roadmap" with the presence and support of social organizations, ANC and -enormemente Omnium and decisive begin with- , the most militant students, independent trade unions and a majority interest the Catalan population. Which they have said the polls.



However, and the working youth, characterized by absolute job security, the growing unemployment and largely by a professional qualification no place in the labor market, they have adapted to family support and subsidized insecurity, and have not been built, decisively, to the class struggle. The same has happened with young people students, largely working class unemployed in the immediate future, disarmed by the political discourse can that has always escaped, "as soul fleeing the devil", all references to class struggle .

In the environment Article 155: The prefascismo Rajoy and urgent fascism Albert Rivera

The Spanish Government has also stuck to its "roadmap" in the belief that it had the necessary elements to bring to Catalonia or any movement of rebellion: at present, throughout the period of the process and, above all, the future. 

That future is marked by the 21 December and also medium / short term, the establishment of a People 's Republic and the fall of the authoritarian monarchy and heavily armed. Rajoy and his prefascist Government, master propagandist and psychological operations, launched a political, repressive and economic challenge and a double loop to win the first part of the great game that was taking place in Catalonia and the rest of Spain .



The immediate scenario Rajoy was Catalan but the strategic scenario was , and remains, without doubt, the defense of the Spanish state and its Bourbon monarchy in Catalonia in the state and abroad. Its advertising and legal reference was, on all three fronts, defending the much publicized "rule of law" or what is the same, the tight defense of the Constitution. This was, on all fronts, their salvation and that of all the other parties of the "constitutional front."


I had no other. But the table, given the null capacity and interest of the PSOE to defend the people and their intolerance of any constitutional change; and position irrelevant and we strongly electioneering of playing simultaneously against the Catalan people and against his history (DUI); and in favor of "rule of law" and against its enormous repressive machinery, it was as strong as it remains -for the moment- the Constitutional Transition Pact.


This gives still for much game as electioneering or simulated part. The PSOE, encouraged by the PP with the bait of an immediate constitutional change has already received its first formal drubbing. We are suffering a huge internal division and Ada Colau had to break his pact with the PSC in the city of Barcelona. His interpretation of the facts is that Barcelona allows anything and that "both mounted, mounted both".

The international front

Rajoy thought to act first to disarm Catalonia in the outer two scenarios: state and international.

On the international front, Rajoy, despite savage repression images October 1, and the legislative and judicial remedy under Article 155 considered that the two fronts we were very favorable. First made his first visit to Donald Trump, president of the US, no doubt to explain the scope of the "Catalan algarada" its contagiousness and European destabilization would bring. Trump, without giving any importance to his host, and no sign of interest in knowing the situation in Catalonia, he said, with obvious reluctance, Washington's support to the measures taken or to be taken. Trump is obvious that truncheon blows and even shots deterrence bring him carelessly.


The second answer to the request for assistance by the Prime Minister to launch the inherited political scene of Franco-and presented by the parties of the "constitutional arch" and "rule of law" - was the express complicity of the Bourbon king, Philip VI, in his speech delivering the Princess of Asturias awards. The Constitution had to be the star; the "rule of law" by Franco origin, its only manifestation.

The Princess of Asturias Awards

The presence of Rajoy in that act, often very formal, served to "constitutionalize" King's speech, and the latter to "legitimate" intervention and dictatorial interpretation of the President.

Legitimacies in that soup and shared speeches the three highest authorities of the European Union, the President of the European Parliament, the President of the Council and the President of the Commission put. The three of them took that amazing period! the integral speech Felipe VI-Rajoy who had lost all trace of moderation and impartiality of the sacred "Crown of all" and his equally inviolable carrier. There was driving, seat almost without cameras, the president of the Asturian community, willing to shut their pipers beautiful event with her Asturias Patria Querida. The best that can be said about what happened in the great scene of the Campoamor Theater is that everyone went to their businesses:


-Felipe VI to preserve the crown before a fateful and premonitory Catalan Republic; -Rajoy to improve their ranking and legitimate electoral Article 155 before the highest representatives of the European Union. These last próceres to suggest that the only option in Europe is "savage liberalism or fascism" and deny the viability of any revolt of the people who spoil their big business. -The smaller players also had their "role" fascist Albert Rivera the first entertainer of repression in Catalonia and President of Asturias Javier Fernández. Both represented the support of CIU and the two branches of the PSOE to the application of enforcement measures under Article 155.

A challenge and a double loop

Rajoy knew that in the scenario state but not so in Catalonia show strength and extreme measures of authority allowed for the moment to unite in their environment to a considerable part of a depoliticized people who, for the moment it seems to have taken the culture of political indifference, distrust and revolutionary changes proposed to the crisis; Salvador and clientelism that incorporates citizens circuits of power and, ultimately, to the corruption. Rajoy's challenge to the Catalan Republic had four main branches: political, repressive, economic and media- and a double loop to win the first part of the great game that was taking place in Catalonia and the rest of Spain .


For the double loop had caught, with one of them the PSOE and the PC in its obligatorily constitutionalist position; which it was a complete success in the first case and the second part. With the second loop Rajoy's government hunted Citizens ascribing a dual role in which he moves like a fish in water: appear as the young and unprejudiced -Catalan fascism and estatal- in your desired handsome and urgent role of instigator of the state exception in Catalonia. CIU in that role with Comparsa the PP itself organized the heavier weapons and more suitable institutional organization. Thus the PP, also disarmed citizens in their electoral promise to control the excesses of corruption People 's Party falling like hail large caliber, everywhere.


The challenge was addressed to the parties "constitutionalists" left. At this time the PP has already announced that the constitutional reform will be reduced to formal questions. Thus, simulations and hypocrisies aside, has strengthened the monarchy, the regime of 78 and his bipartisan pact with the PSOE. In this case the simulation corresponds to state PSOE and the apparent outrage at the PSC. We can and its various confluences in Catalonia with Ada Colau head -nationalist bridge, but not independence -in its fundamental role as mayor of Barcelona-, has been particularly ambiguous. with his pact with the PSOE and its strategy halfway between the DUI and the implementation of the "repression a la carte" (Magna Carta, we should say) of Article 155.


His latest moves to exit the territory nobody will carry (a Colau) probably the discomfiture of their voters, the more open rupture can in Catalonia, the difficulty of governing Barcelona and his loss of political power at the Catalan level and state .

The "roadmap", the Catalan Republic and Article 155

The Government has followed a very clever way, though not without difficulties (adapting its actions to the legal and repressive government of Rajoy resolutions, including police and military occupation -the latter in degree of readiness and threatened), the initiation of court proceedings, imprisonment of vice president and several directors, the leaders of Omnium Cultural and the ANC, exile and arrest warrant against President Puigdemont and other directors exiled to Belgium seat of the institutions of the European Union. The Government has succeeded in placing Catalan agenda for Europe and turn the European close that the king had decreed, Rajoy and the PSOE.


The Government reserves Rajoy great advantages, one of which is the processing -for the Supreme Court or the Court Nacional- of all those people they can show their support for the declaration of independence of Catalonia especially teachers responsible for placing the polls on October 1, members of the Police autonomic who failed to protect the head of the judicial device and several hundreds or thousands of people, including mayors who supported, rod in hand, the President Puigdemont and its Directors. The basic issue is, in my opinion , and right now, the implementation of a state of exception - more camouflaged, desenmascarado- in Catalonia, easily extensible to the rest of the country. To start trembling or jump into the mountain.

In this case the application of open repressive measures as provided for in Article 155 would no limitations or simulations, and the general applause of all parties in the constitutional field and those who stay halfway. There is no political space between an absolute, expandable and projectable repression in time, Article 155 blaring, as just announced the government "if they win the parliamentary majority independence and perform any act that promotes" in the words of Spanish Justice Minister of State and Minister of Justice for the Government of Catalonia, Rafael Catalá Polo. There is no barricade against repression, which will use the military if necessary, as stated, the Minister of Defense, María Dolores de Cospedal,


 The Government of Catalonia, the parties that promoted the Catalan Republic, and approached our own , have lost their first battle, but acknowledged that not foresee the enormous hardness of Rajoy and acted naively. 
They have torn down their barricades, they have corrected their bewilderment and have started again. 
"A step forward, two steps back". 

Antonio Maira is a political analyst and Commander, retired Navy Rebellion has posted this article with the author 's permission through a Creative Commons license, respecting their freedom to publish it elsewhere.