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The rising revulsion against “Madrid” showed in many ways. Originally it
was thought that bussing demonstrators from the regions would require
1500 coaches, but on the day more than 2000 had to be hired.
The metro and rail lines serving the working-class inner and outer
“belts” of Barcelona, where families from other parts of Spain, Latin
America and North Africa predominate, were packed.
In the populous neighbourhoods, the estalada, the pro-independence
version of the Catalan flag (with its white star on a blue
triangle—taken from Cuba’s) has been hanging from more balconies than
ever, a visual symbol of growing working-class desertion of the
social-democratic and anti-consultation Party of Catalan Socialists
(PSC), the Catalan affiliate of the once-reformist Spanish Socialist
Workers Party (PSOE).
It’s not that hundreds of thousands of working people of non-Catalan
origin have become one-eyed Catalan nationalists. As in Scotland,
working-class support for national rights is driven by the experience of
central-government austerity. Put bluntly: “If those bastards are
opposed to the Catalans’ right to decide, I’m probably with the
Catalans’ right to decide.”
Dick Nichols, http://links.org.au/node/4061
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Laia Gordi: As you have been campaigning for Yes to independence in
Scotland, what’s your view –and your guess- on the Catalan
self-determination movement and referendum?
Tariq Ali: The Catalonian self-determination movement is largely led by
the Catalan bourgeoisie. That’s the unfortunate truth. They are
fighting essentially on the basis of “we are richer than the rest of
Spain and why shouldn’t we spend all this money on ourselves?”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/22/catalan-independence-scotland-and-the-middle-east/
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