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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the recent elections in Spain where Pedro Sánchez of the Socialist Party (PSOE) has decided to agree on a coalition government with the anti-austerity Unidas Podemos, in an effort to prevent the rising Vox Party from forming a right, populist government.
Vox was the big winner of the elections in Spain, growing to become the third strongest party in Spain’s Congress.

Nina Cross
21st Century Wire

A protest in solidarity with the Catalan pro-independence politicians in Barcelona, Spain, October 20, 2019. © Jon Nazca / Reuters RT | October 24, 2019 The prosecution of Catalan pro-independence politicians by Spain violates European law and is simply “absurd,” a former high-ranking democracy and human rights expert at the UN has told RT. “Political […]

Spain's supreme court has sentenced nine Catalan leaders up to 13 years in prison on charges of sedition. A general strike brought the city to a standstill and there has been violent unrest for a week.

Anti monarchist Soviet poster: “Once and for all”
There are some people — whereby I do not know how many — who recall the key elements of British colonial rule. I was fortunate enough not to live under it. My grandfather had no great admiration for the country where he was born, despite the almost rabid Anglophilia to be found even today in many surprising places.

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In 2017 the people of Catalonia voted to break away from the Kingdom of Spain. This was the second such referendum in which a majority of the people there voted for separation. There was also an election in which the separatist parties commanded a clear majority. The mandate is indisputable.

The Grayzone reports from Caracas, where thousands of Venezuelans marched to protest against the crippling US blockade — and to…
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With Julian Assange facing possible extradition from Britain to the U.S. for publishing classified secrets, Elizabeth Vos reflects on the parallel but divergent case of a notorious Chilean dictator. By Elizabeth Vos Eight months from now one of the most…Read more →

IMAGE: Toby Cadman, co-founder of Guernica Chambers 37, one of legal entities bringing latest case against President Assad at the International Criminal Court (Photo: The ICC and our politics)
Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire 

Conn M. HALLINAN
There were several lessons to take from last month’s Spanish elections, some special to Spain, others that resonate continent wide. Since the 28-member European Union is preparing to vote on the makeup of the European Parliament at the end of May, those lessons are relevant.