IRATI OLEAGA.
15 years have elapsed since the Spanish Civil Guard wielding their guns shut down the daily Euskaldunon Egunkaria, that way crushing the only daily written in Basque. Besides closing the newspaper, 10 staff members were subject to detention, torture and charged with ‘terrorism’. A staff member’s daughter bears now a harrowing, first-hand testimony of the events.
The Basque Country...
JAKE MAC SIACAIS
Director of Forbairt Feirste.
Last Friday, 16/2/18, there was renewed hope and huge speculation in the media that a deal around Irish Language legislation was imminent. By Monday 19th February, even as the British Prime Minister and the Taoiseach arrived in Belfast, doubts had crept in. Unionist fury at any concessions on the rights of Irish speakers was...
JOXE ARAKAMA LOPEZ DE GEREÑU
The conquest brings the subjugation of a People by means of all kinds of violence and stunts. Conquest may be a matter of military strategy, but overall the conquerors aim at taking over the lands, cattle, property and lives of that people. The armed conquest is followed by colonization, a process whereby the mighty underpin...
PAKO SUDUPE
Abstract:
The author elaborates on the 30th anniversary of the Ajuria Enea Agreement. He basically assimilates the promoters of that agreement with those of Article 155’s implementation, i.e. the Spanish establishment, those advocating for the one-and-only nation, and the suppressors of Catalan and Basque national rights.
Those who impose on us the sacred unity of the nation are also the...
JOXE ARAKAMA LOPEZ DE GEREÑU
Abstract:
The one-time Marxism measured the situation of a colony against its income per capita. It did not take heed of the emotional status of the subdued people, the resignation, anxiety and exhaustion spurred by subjugation, the rage triggered by seeing one’s own feelings, language, culture and values put down. The author regards the position held...
JAKE MAC SIACAIS
Director of Forbairt Feirste.
‘Cultural Supremacy’is a term that has been bandied about with increasing frequency by the major Pro-Union party in the British Controlled North Eastern Counties of Ireland. The Democratic Unionist Party, which enjoyed a slender majority in the local institutions at Stormont, set up under the Good Friday Agreement, was finally forced from office in...
MIKEL URKOLA ELEIZEGI
Abstract:
In the political criticism levelled by Mikel Urkola at the Spanish regime, he follows Michel Foucault’s thinking. Falangism is the most representative ideology from the hard time of Francoism and since the politicians who stood out in the Franco regime and who designed the 1978 reform were the same politicians, Urkola calls post-Falangism the regime that emerged...
