Opinió
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Comptem amb vosaltres
Vicent Partal
15.03.2012
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Si ells poden votar pel caudillo...
Vicent Partal
14.03.2012
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País de líders
Vicent Partal
13.03.2012
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'Qu'ei fenit lo temps de la vergonha'
Vicent Partal
12.03.2012
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Com ho fem?
Vicent Partal
11.03.2012
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Independents per què?
Vicent Partal
09.03.2012
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Això, ho paguem tots
Vicent Partal
08.03.2012
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El PP tira pel dret
Vicent Partal
07.03.2012
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Demane disculpes
Vicent Partal
06.03.2012
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L'exemple islandès
Vicent Partal
06.03.2012
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La independència és una tàctica?
Vicent Partal
05.03.2012
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La tossuderia europea
Vicent Partal
02.03.2012
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La sòcia Cristina
Vicent Partal
01.03.2012
Vicent Partal
02.01.2014
The role of the Socialists
I'm not talking about the role of the PSC. I'm talking about the role of the Socialists in Catalonia's independence process. And I do so because they are fundamental, because we cannot construct a victorious coalition without the presence of what has been one of the key parties in this country, without its people and without its way of understanding Catalanism. And I also do so in order to note that we can rest easy. The initials, the machine, they're against us because they are held hostage by a few. But each day there are more and more Socialists, card-carrying or otherwise, who are done with the party line and who side with the majority. Where they always intended to be.
A year ago, I wrote an editorial in which I claimed that though the PSC didn't know it yet, they were turning independentist. I said it in reference to the vote in which they had voted differently than the PSOE [their affiliated party] in the Spanish Congress: 'The left will inevitably be ever more broad, exactly the same way it happened years ago in the whole of society. No matter what they do, no matter what they say, the left will grow because the paradigm has shifted. When you stop thinking about the others and begin to think about yourself, freedom is imminent. And it's really hard to go back to the way things were before.'
Clearly, given the perspective of last year, I was wrong about the initials. I didn't take into account to what extent the PSC is a party under the thumb of its very meager internal, premanufactured democracy such that it is possible for a minority to control the patrimony of the whole and enjoy usufruct. But, seen with the perspective of the past year, I think no one can dispute that the truth is that the Socialists—not the initials but the people—are turning independentist, if they are not so already.
We see it in the towns where their councilors, without fractures, vote systematically in favor of the referendum and against the orders of Pere Navarro [president of the PSC]. We see it as important names in the Socialist party take public positions that manage to leverage their political weight in the service of the process. From Quim Nadal to Manuel Royes, who preside over local entities, to Ernest Maragall, who heads a new party, a kind of refuge from which to begin to rebuild Catalan socialdemocracy. We see it in the intellectual expression of a good portion of the Socialist opinion makers, analysts, and strategists who don't hide for a moment the direction that the country is going in.
Yesterday, José Antonio Donaire, one of the most interesting Socialist voices in the last decade, published a brilliant analysis on his blog explaining the reasons why Catalonia's independence will become a reality. It is an explanation that I recommend to you most highly. He doesn't make any personal declarations, but the analysis doesn't leave a lot of doubt about the country's future, and therefore, how a party who wants to win majorities and respect social opinion should see things.
Mail Obert
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La ignorància del rei
Oriol Izquierdo
27.07.2015
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Parla amb la teva àvia (i II)
Andreu Barnils
26.07.2015
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Sean Scully a Santa Cecília de Montserrat
Mercè Ibarz
25.07.2015
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L'exemple de la ILP per l'habitatge: desobeir i avançar junts
Bel Zaballa
24.07.2015
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No és ignorància: és cinisme i mala fe
Pere Cardús
23.07.2015
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L'escepticisme jacobí lleument esquerdat
Joan-Lluís Lluís
22.07.2015
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Peix al cove ‘reloaded’
Marta Rojals
21.07.2015
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A Grècia, dos assassinats
Andreu Barnils
19.07.2015
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La llista independentista: un artefacte imbatible?
Pere Cardús
16.07.2015
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La meva llista civil per la independència
Bel Zaballa
15.07.2015
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#cimeraindepe, minut i resultat
Marta Rojals
14.07.2015
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Ara és l’Hora: la candidatura del sí-sí
Oriol Izquierdo
13.07.2015
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Amb sense president
Andreu Barnils
12.07.2015
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Fills de l’exili, de les migracions, de l’educació
Mercè Ibarz
11.07.2015
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Si #TV3noemrepresenta, qui ho farà?
Marta Rojals
07.07.2015
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Lluís Llach, el Camp Nou i una fam de trenta anys
Joan-Lluís Lluís
06.07.2015
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Joan Herrera, al divan (II)
Andreu Barnils
05.07.2015
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Salvador Iborra, no és cosa nostra
Roger Cassany
04.07.2015
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La llista electoral que pot passar la prova de l'ànec
Pere Cardús
02.07.2015
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Orwell 2.0, o digues-me què cliques i et diré qui ets
Bel Zaballa
01.07.2015
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'Indepe' amb mar de fons
Marta Rojals
30.06.2015
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La resposta
Oriol Izquierdo
29.06.2015
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Joan Herrera, al divan
Andreu Barnils
28.06.2015
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40 anys de tot allò, 30 d’això
Mercè Ibarz
27.06.2015
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El mètode per a sumar els 'sí se puede' a la independència
Pere Cardús
25.06.2015