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Chris Maisano surveys the views and policies of left-wing parties in Europe regarding the Ukraine war.

The entire corrupt pseudo-left political milieu in Spain and beyond has lied to the public and hidden from workers the imminent danger of all-out NATO-Russia war.

REPUBLICANS in Catalonia have said they will open up a new chapter under their leadership to make amnesty possible for political prisoners – including their leader Oriol Junqueras – and self-determination achievable. Pere Aragones, the presidential candidate for the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), yesterday called for a new independence referendum after the pro-independence bloc in the Catalan Parliament reached more than 50% of the vote for the first time. He said: “The Catalan people have spoken. The time has come to negotiate a referendum.” The Socialist party under for...

Catalonia has endeavoured for 40 years to become independent from Spain. But it had its autonomy suspended for around seven months in 2017 by Madrid after a failed independence bid. Catalonia nationalists claim the region sends too much money for poorer parts of Spain, as a result of taxes being governed by Madrid and say changes to Spain’s autonomous status in 2010 undermined Catalan’s identity. A referendum vote held on October 1, 2017, was declared illegal by Spain’s Constitutional Court but revealed 90 percent of Catalan’s voters backed independence. However, the turnout for the w...