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El Periódico Friday, 04/06/2018 The German businessman who criticized the Catalan independents Karl Jacobi: “Puigdemont lives in Brussels like a king, and we pay him” The German businessman who intervened in a colloquium in the German-speaking Directors’ Circle to affirm that the president of the Parliament of Catalonia, Roger Torrent, should go to jail, stated … Read more

“People who live outside” is a documentary with which the Libre e Iguales platform wants to show “shamelessly what nationalism does with the lives of people who resist obeying its mandates.” This is how the journalist and writer Arcadi Espada, one of the promoters of this initiative, summarizes the documentary, and it arose to raise … Read more

Bruno Bimbi at the Crónica Global facilities, in an archive image / CG An Argentine journalist accuses the Generalitat of punishing him after criticizing the imposition of Catalan Bruno Bimbi claims to have suffered retaliation such as the withdrawal of a scholarship after denouncing the exclusion of Spanish at the UB, and denounces the “xenophobia” … Read more

The Catalans have always taken advantage of Spain when it has interested them (Bad luck to have had these people in Catalonia) Catalonia and Spanish nationalism  LA VANGUARDIA 03/13/2017 Juan Luis Marfany, historian. Was the “Renaissance” in Catalan resurgimiento? On the contrary, the intellectuals of the Renaissance were the precursors of modern Spanish nationalism. Because? … Read more

January 23, 2018 The radicalization between supporters and detractors of independence has made the practice of journalism in Catalonia a risky and complex task. Reporters Without Borders recently presented a detailed report calling for respect for the work of journalists in this community, a report criticized by sectors related to the independent movement, who interpreted … Read more

VIRAL  An Andalusian nurse complains that he has been left without a place because he does not know Catalan and the networks ‘burn’: “Don’t come back” Thousands of users reacted to the protest of this interim worker at Vall d’Hebron Hospital Mundo Deportivo Updated at 14/12/2024 11:49 CET   A good thing about social networks … Read more

Control of the media in Catalonia I have been in Plaça de Sant Jaume for 20 years expressing my protest and it has never been possible for me to express myself (total publication ban on the press that has tried to help me during all these years). In Catalonia there is a dictatorial system that … Read more

HARD WORDS FROM THE FORMER BARCELONA PLAYER Petit charges against the Catalan independence movement: “It is very close to racism” “I understand that they feel identified with that, but that is very close to racism. We talk about football, not politics or religion. I wanted to leave Barça, I made a big mistake,” says the … Read more

Barcelona 23 August 2021 Controversy The artist Sean Scully leaves Barcelona fed up with Catalanism and nationalism The painter’s family has moved their residence to the French city of Aix-en-Provence Irish-American artist Sean Scully / MARC VILA (BCN) The famous visual artist Sean Scully, born in Ireland and naturalized American, has left his home in … Read more

THE PUBLIC CHAIN ​​FRANCE 5 French TV believes that there is “a racist component” in the secessionist drift in Catalonia The program ‘C’est dans l’air’, on France 5, assures that sovereigntists “are rich who do not want to pay for the poor” and that they are part of a “bourgeoisie that has always felt superior” … Read more

Las Ramblas in Barcelona, ​​where there is no shortage of modernist mansions with a past linked to the colonialism of Catalonia in America / Cedida The English press echoes Catalonia’s slave past ‘The Guardian’ points out in a report how industrialists and sailors in the region became rich with human trafficking even after its prohibition … Read more

Catalonia’s dark slave past Some initiatives and books try to bring to light the role of the Catalan bourgeoisie in the slave trade Plaza de Antonio López, in Barcelona. / JOAN PUIG April 1, 2017. 17:17 It is popular that the  buying and selling of slaves  generated great fortunes among the great families of the  … Read more

Matacan By  Javier Caraballo Andalusians, Catalans and traitors Just as there is a ‘Stockholm syndrome’, we should consider the possibility of naming the ‘charnego syndrome’ Gabriel Rufián, deputy spokesperson for ERC. (EFE) By  Javier Caraballo 09/07/2017 – 17:22 The betrayal of memory is the greatest perversion of the  independence movement . The memory of the … Read more

REACTION Van Gaal accuses FC Barcelona board of racism against foreigners Pavel I. Meda October 11, 2021 7:22 pm Amid all the criticism against his compatriots , Louis van Gaal made some serious accusations against the FC Barcelona board and Catalans When Louis van Gaal was FC Barcelona manager, he didn’t receive the best treatment … Read more

Catalan companies discriminated against “Castilian” job applicants during the ‘process’ Two studies show “severe employment discrimination” by Catalan companies towards applicants with “Castilian” names. 5/9/2023 – 06:48 Independence groups on the occasion of the September 11th Day. | EFE An unprecedented study carried out in Spain shows that Catalonia discriminated against the rest of Spaniards … Read more