Category: POLITICS
France: rebellions, referendums and regicides
Macron, having destroyed the socialist party, divided the party of the mainstream right and neutralised the rebellious railway workers of the SNCF, no doubt imagining that he was headed for an extraordinary destiny as a kind of 21st century Anglophile Bonaparte.
Catalonia and other identities in our common home
It is rather unfair to set the entities of Catalonia and Spain against each other. As if Catalonia were a singular entity attached to the Spanish State, and the latter an homogeneous […]
The cardinal regions and the farce of the Pays-de-la-Loire
When you look at a modern map of France, you may spot an anomaly in the shape of the regions, and one in particular: the Pays-de-la-Loire, a puppet region created by the French state during the second half of the twentieth century for the sole purpose of weakening Brittany, its neighbouring region with a very strong regional identity.
A Sad Day for Spain
By Claudio Sales Palmero Yesterday was a sad day. The Spanish Government showed a total incomprehension of the socio-political climate in Catalonia. It is absurd that they thought 50% of the population […]
Guadeloupe: a French island somewhere between paradise and desperation
As soon as you leave the airport, you might be excused for thinking you are in metropolitan France: the cars have French number plates, the European flag above the F. The architecture of the terminal and other buildings are typically Gallic, as if all materials had been directly imported from France.
Scotland re-modelled in the French style
The borders should be redrawn and a new autonomous entity created, comprising Edinburgh, Newcastle and Carlisle, which will be named the “Tweed River Countries”, thus depriving Scotland of an important economic and demographic centre with a consequent reduction of its population from 5.3 to 4.3 million. Popular historians in the media will maintain that Edinburgh never really had a Gaelic or even Scottish culture.
LE POUVOIR DES RÉGIONS OCCIDENTALES DE L’UKRAINE
La nouvelle majorité au parlement reflète le pouvoir des régions occidentales de l’Ukraine. D’ailleurs, on remarque le taux de participation à l’ouest est plus fort que dans le sud ou à l’est.
Voices of Dissent
How do you challenge the increasingly right-wing, authoritarian governments which are now appearing throughout Europe and currently in America? This is a question artists and political activists are asking themselves all over the world.