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...
Five years have gone by since the Catalonian society massively embraced the demand for national independence, spurred by the ANC, the Catalan National Assembly. The 2012 Diada’s turnout was the highest ever; one million-plus people crammed the streets of Barcelona, with the cry for ‘Independence’ far overpowering any other slogans. The shockwaves unleashed got far, with the main autonomist...
