JOXE ARAKAMA LOPEZ DE GEREÑU.
Abstract:
The author describes in the article the way colonization processes unfold. Conquest paves the grounds for colonization, i.e. a conquest provides the platform initiating the process to alienate a people from their language, culture, values and world view. A people subjected to colonization is not just stripped of its own language, culture and values, it...
JOXE ARAKAMA LOPEZ DE GEREÑU
Abstract:
Conquest is any action implemented by means of violence, deceit or scheme against a people, the vilest action pursued by a mighty group against any peoples, a crime against humanity.
The author of the article emphasizes that the Basque Country was subjected to conquest. During the Middle Ages, Navarre, the natural kingdom of the Basques, came...
IÑAKI LOPEZ DE LUZURIAGA.
Abstract:
The totem of a historic Spanish unity crumbles in the subject addressed in this article by its author: the resolution passed by the General Assembly of Gipuzkoa to create a Republic of Gipuzkoa, out of Spain. Gipuzkoa is one of the seven constituent territories of the Basque Country, showing the highest ratio of Basque speakers and...
MIKEL URKOLA ELEIZEGI.
Abstract:
In this article, Basque university professor and author of a number of books Mikel Urkola, accuses the Spanish State of neither complying with nor respecting some international treaties it has signed. In particular, in 1977 it ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of the UN (1966) and in 1978, introduced through Articles 10 and...
Diarmuid Breatnach
Irish writer
The English occupation of Ireland made a determined effort to eradicate the Irish language from Ireland and in 1366 promulgated the Statutes of Kilkenny to forbid “the degenerate English” (colonists) “who are become more Irish than the Irish themselves” from speaking Irish, dressing in Irish style, playing Irish games, etc. Outside of the city areas, the laws...
XABIER LAKARRA BEROITZ.
Abstract:
Our collaborator Xabier Lakarra raises here the issue of two opposing linguistic models, Estonia and Ireland, or as he puts it, a model (Estonia) and an anti-model (Ireland).
Estonia gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. At that moment, a third of the population spoke Russian, with no command of Estonian. However, that did not stop the...
ROBIN McALPINE
Director of "COMMON WEAL"
Five years have gone since the self-determination referendum of Scotland, lost by pro-independence advocates only by a narrow margin. However, Brexit has offered a new opportunity to the Scottish pro-independence movement, since the Scots wish to remain in the European Union and stay miles away of Europhobic English attitudes. The streets of Glasgow have seen...
MIKEL URKOLA ELEIZEGI.
Abstract:
Imperialism is the greatest of political evils and has generated the greatest crimes in the history of mankind, says the autor of this article.
For more than 5.000 years, in the five continents and using the most varied excuses (religion, homeland, justice and even democracy) imperialism has justified its crimes, its outrages and atrocities without shame, causing wars...
Comments: Jose Inazio Lopez de Luzuriaga Fernandez
Book: Txillardegiren borroka abertzalea
Author: Pako Sudupe
Publisher: Elkar Argitaletxea, Donostia (2016).
Abstract:
Pako Sudupe’s work addresses Txillardegi’s biography.
However, this biography does not focus on dealing with his relatives or his professional career as an engineer. No. This biography takes a focus on his cultural and political profile. In the first part of the book Sudupe dwells...
COLIN NOSWORTHY and MAIA JONES
"CYMDEITHAS YR IAITH GYMRAEG".
Within Europe, Welsh is the language that most closely resembles Basque in its sociolinguistic situation. At least that has been the case for many years, even though in the last few years the Basque language has extended its lead over that Celtic language (perhaps due to its having gained official status prior...
