Translated from the article by Barbaria:
Ni rojigualdas ni esteladas. ¡Por la independencia de clase contra toda nación!
For explaining the nature of the so-called catalan independentist process there’s no better image than the election of Quim Torra as president of the Generalitat. Self-determination and the freedom to vote has ended up putting an all-out admirer of Miquel Badia, one of the worst torturers and killers of the proletariat in the revolutionary Catalonia of the 30’s, at its helm. (The homage made to the Badia brothers on the part of Junqueras and Torra serves as testimony).
Quim Torra (right), current president of the Catalan Parlament at an act of homage to the proto-fascist Badia brothers
There’s no contradiction in all of this. In the end of the story, the freedom to vote has always meant the freedom to become massacred by our own bourgeoisie. Continue reading