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On February 6th, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Southern and Central Turkey, as well as Northern Syria. This disaster has severely devastated the regions, with more than 40,000 people have killed and tens of thousands more have injured and sicplaced. On February 20, a second earthquake hit the border region, this time with its epicenter in the Turkish city if Antakya.    To understand the context and the impact this disaster will have in the complex geopolitical reality of the region, we talked with Ruben Wagensber, activist and member of the Catalan Parliament for Esquerra Republicana since 2017.

To begin with, how can we interpret the difference between the aid that the West sends to Syria and that which reaches Turkey?   This difference reminds us that, even in this disaster, for most Western states, the lives of some people are worth more than other. Turkey is a state that is part of NATO and has a key role in the war in Ukraine. For this reason, despite the numerous convictions that the Turkish state has in the European Court of Human Rights for violating fundamental rights such as freedom of expression, association or for discriminating against groups…

Last March 18, we showed off our anti-racist stance coinciding with the United Nations' International Day Against Racial Discrimination.

In Barcelona, the demonstration, organized by the platform “Unity against racism and fascism”, brought together thousands and thousands of people who flooded the city with slogans, banners and speeches against racial discrimination.   As an organization we once again demonstrated our commitment to the anti-racist fight. The Catalan Countries have been and are a land of welcome for migrants regardless of place of origin. From here, we the Catalans have launched projects that are known worldwide such as Open Arms, which constantly rescues lives in the Mediterranean of people fleeing poverty and war.   As an organization, we believe it…

The non-approval of the Citizen Security reform, otherwise known as the Gag Law, has been in the news this month.

This non-approval has been possible with our votes and those of our fellow Basque fighters from EH Bildu. It's possible that if you're reading this you might be standing there thinking that we should have modified a right-wing security reform that restricted many rights.   We have always been in favor of its repeal and the creation of a new one, as we have also been open to modifying it in order to remove the most harmful parts for democracy and human rights. In fact, we have been meeting with different parties, entities and NGOs for months and months. But…

As you may know, every 8th March international women’s day is celebrated around the world, and, as we are a proud feminist organization, we obviously took part in the events of this day.

In Jovent Republicà we have a group formed only y women who are the ones in charge of preparing the activities that everybody does on important dates in the feminism movement. This year, our devise was Simon de Beauvoir’s known quote: “El feminisme és una manera de viure individualment i de lluitar col·lectivament” (Feminism is a way of living individually and fighting collectively). Because we wanted to put feminism again in the center of our discourse in order to remember to society that we are still working for the patriarchy to end in contrast to all the sexist speeches that…

This month we participated, as we always do, in the winter school of EFAY, which this year was held in Galicia.

This school has allowed us to create an excellent space in order to get to know the Galician political reality first hand, but also in order to exchange ideas and experiences with comrades from all over Europe as well as to strengthen ties with national organizations without the state of Spain with whom we have many struggles in common. Strengthen us together in order to find joint solutions.   Among the various points of work, he highlighted migration policies as well as looking for alternatives in order to build a more progressive model that protects national minorities.   On the…

Last January 7, we demonstrated in Bilbo together with the Basque civil society and the colleagues of Gazte Abertzaleak; to demand an end to the policy of dispersal of prisoners and to support the prisoners who suffer from it and their families.

The dispersion of prisoners is a repressive method, which the Spanish state has used since the time of the Franco dictatorship with the aim of further exacerbating the pain of families. Forcing them to travel thousands of kilometers to be able to visit their relatives or friends who are imprisoned. In many cases these relatives or friends travel more than 1000 km and are not even allowed to visit the prisoners. The dispersion of prisoners is coming to an end thanks to the peace process that is being carried out in Euskadi. We will demonstrate as often as necessary for…

On January 17, 1287, the entry into Maó of the troops of Alfonso III culminated in the conquest of Menorca. In this way, the island was incorporated into the Crown of Aragon and the Catalan language and culture were assumed to be typical of the Menorcan people.

As a republican and left-wing organization, we continue to fight to win full sovereignty. We are clear about it: We want to govern ourselves to change an economic model that exploits young people so much and ensure that all young Menorcans who wish to do so can live in Menorca and enjoy decent housing and work. We want to govern ourselves to break with sexist traditions and face the climate emergency that threatens the territorial balance and well-being of our people and promote the consumption of products from our land, as well as small shops. We want to face the tourist…

The budget negotiations with PSC -acronym for “Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya” (Socialist Worker’s party of Catalonia)- are taking place. Before anything, we want to state that PSC has nothing to do with socialist ideology, and works as a filial of Madrid, so nothing to do also with "catalan". One could easily say is the P party.

The budget negociations, with their infrastructure demands, have put the focus on the debate about which model of country we want in the middle of an global environmental crisis and climate emergency. For those who do not follow Catalan politics, there are 3major infrastructures that the PSC has claimed as necessary for the future economic development of Catalonia: Hard Rock Hotel-Casino: A macro hotel complex located near the city of Tarragona and adjacent to an existing theme park (Port Aventura). Expansion of El Prat Airport: Extend the existing runways by invading a natural space and build a new terminal. El Quart…

Last January 14, we started our way towards the municipal elections of May 28, 2023. We did it during our National Council, where we approved our political program.

This time, however, our program is a little different from the previous municipal elections. Due to the fact that we are the first young political force in the country, we are also the party with the most young people in the local institutions of the Catalan Countries. This means that in the last 4 years dozens of councilors from the Jovent Republicà have been representing their neighbors. After 4 years of work, now it's time to collect the results, and that means a lot. On the one hand we have a typical electoral programe, with political proposals on one side.…

On Thursday, the 19th of January, a summit between Spain and France took place in Barcelona, which had not been celebrated since 1987.

It was the second time in his history that Catalonia held this type of meeting. The assistants were Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s president; Emmanuel Macron, France’s president; Pere Aragonès, Catalonia’s president, and Ada Colau, Barcelona’s mayor. The Catalan nation understands the intention of meeting with the nearest country, but, as we don’t feel like part of Spain, we are totally against the fact that was held in our country. Using the context of this meeting, the Spanish government said that the independentist process was dead and, from Jovent Republicà, we have very clear that nothing has finished and we are still…