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Bye, bye Rajoy: what now?
Marx21 [Català] · [Castellano] · [English] The expulsion from office of Mariano Rajoy and the PP is good news. It would have been better had they not been the biggest party at the last elections. It would have been better had they fallen as a direct result of mass mobilisation in the street, or a general […]
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People power removes blanket ban on abortion in Ireland
Tina MacVeigh [Castellano] · [Català] · [English] On Friday 25 May 2018, people living in Ireland voted overwhelmingly to remove the 8th Amendment from the Irish Constitution. In a wonderfully fitting reversal of history, 66% voted last week to remove the Amendment – 67% had voted to insert it in 1983. Women in Ireland have lived under […]
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The new Catalan president: An investiture that should not have been
Marx21.net [Català] · [Castellano] Finally, about six months after the elections of 21 December, 2017, the Catalan parliament has invested Quim Torra as the 131st president of Catalonia. This article deals with some of the debates there have been and the challenges we are now facing. This shouldn’t have happened If the Spanish government had […]