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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...
Ignorance pervades Europe, not less the Basque Country, when it comes to stateless nations across the continent. As our readers know, NAZIOGINTZA takes a special focus on this topic, given the fact that Basques, even nationalists, are not familiar at all with nations like ours, such as Wales, Corsica, Flanders, Catalonia, Galicia, Scotland, Faeroe Islands, or South Tirol. We...
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...
  Last 16 October, the program “Irrikitown” in the public broadcaster ETB1 showed two controversial opening scenes. The same producers as those of “Vaya semanita” and like programs hostile to Basque nationalism direct this program. The program aired at 9.20 pm, and it is no one’s secret that ETB, as well as the companies and actors commissioned with these programs...
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...