Sunday, October 1, 2017

90% of voters said ‘Yes’ to independence from Spain – Catalan government says the overwhelming majority of Catalans who participated in the banned referendum have voted in favor of independence from Spain, the Catalan government has announced. Over two million Catalans, or 90.9 percent of those who voted said ‘Yes’ in Sunday's referendum, regional authorities said. Only 7,87 percent, or 176,565 voters said ‘No’ when asked if they want to attain independence from Madrid.




Massive protests in Bilbao and Valencia in support of Catalonia

Strike with your sickle - Defenders of the Land - Flag and anthem of Catalonia -1st October 2017



844 injured by Spanish police: Catalan Health Department - Polling in Catalonia just ended


We will initiate formalities to activate the mechanisms of sanctions... We think that the actions of the Spanish state that the whole world is witnessing, put the image of the EU as a guarantor of democracy and human rights at risk," Catalan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Raul Romeva told a news conference in Barcelona Sunday.



Pyongyang on old lunatic of America Donald J Trump




Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee (KAPPC) released a statement on Saturday over the fact that Trump has not yet come to his senses but revealed more critical hysteric fit.

The statement said:

Trump, stunned by the thunderbolt-like declaration of Juche Korea, again twitted such rubbish that north Korea won't be around much longer. He even told the press that his regime's military option against it will be "terribly destructive."

Recently, he signed a new "executive order on sanctions on north Korea" and his inferiors praised it as "the toughest-ever step." And he let the House of Representatives pass "north Korean human rights reauthorization act".

He was so foolish as to try to save his face already lost by letting a B-1B formation fly in the sky above the East Sea of Korea.

Terming this a last-ditch effort to get rid of the extreme uneasiness and fear about the DPRK's bolstering of its nuclear force that has reached its final phase and the toughest-ever countermeasure being seriously considered by the supreme headquarters of the DPRK, the statement went on:

As already clarified, the statement of the chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK serves as an ultimatum to the U.S. imperialist aggressors who are irrationally running riot, exasperated by the dynamic advance of Juche Korea, and a crucial warning that solemnly declared the toughest stand of the DPRK to tame the old lunatic of America with fire without fail.

The more reckless behavior of Trump ignorant of himself and the rival will only harden the retaliatory will of the army and people of the DPRK against the U.S. It will precipitate the doomsday of the U.S. Trump should bear this in mind.

We once again warn the old psychopath of America against his hysteria. His brandishing of "sanctions" club and muscle-flexing with tiger moth-like bombers before the fire-ready revolutionary forces of the DPRK is just a suicidal act of inviting a nuclear disaster that will reduce America into a sea of flames. 

Direct from Catalan News - Hundreds injured amidst police violence against referendum voters'

When the Oppressed Revolt - Pablo Hasél,,,, Cuando las oprimidas se rebelan

Referendum or Fascism ? by Pablo Hasel

Cappont de Lleida voters have ballots confiscated by Spanish Police- democracy and independence for Catalonia Now as the rubber bullets fly

Catalonia Live on Referendum


Statement in Catalan and Spanish of Solidarity with struggle in Catalonia




"L'organització Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr de Gal•les afirma que la lluita catalana és bàsicament una lluita per la democràcia contra un Estat espanyol burgès corrupte, que ha pres una forma nacional a Catalunya.

No obstant això, el lideratge nacionalista català busca subordinar a Catalunya a una Brussel•les corrupta i a la Unió Europea, no és l'alliberament nacional, sinó un simple reajustament entre els burgesos nacionals de l'Estat espanyol i d'Europa.

L'Esquerra Revolucionària de Catalunya s´ha d'oposar tant al corrupte Estat espanyol com a la corrupta Unió Europa, l'OTAN i elevar a la classe obrera al lideratge polític de la lluita nacional per la democràcia a Catalunya. La classe obrera ha de guanyar la direcció de l'alliberament nacional.
Suport a la declaració unilateral d'independència de Catalunya.

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La organización Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr de Gales afirma que la lucha catalana es básicamente una lucha por la democracia contra un Estado español burgués corrupto, que ha tomado una forma nacional en Cataluña.

Sin embargo, el liderazgo nacionalista catalán busca subordinar a Cataluña a una Bruselas corrupta y a la Unión Europea, no es la liberación nacional, sino un simple reajuste entre los burgueses nacionales del Estado español y de Europa.

La Izquierda Revolucionaria de Cataluña debe oponerse tanto al corrupto Estado español como a la corrupta Unión Europa, la OTAN y elevar a la clase obrera al liderazgo político de la lucha nacional por la democracia en Cataluña. La clase obrera debe ganar la dirección de la liberación nacional.
Apoyo a la declaración unilateral de independencia de Catalunya.

Socialism and Independence

Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr in Wales says the Catalan struggle is basically a struggle for democracy against a corrupt bourgeois Spanish State which has taken a national form in Catalonia.

However the bourgeois nationalist Catalan leadership seeks to subordinate Catalonia to a corrupt Brussels and the European Union - this is  not national liberation but a readjustment among the national bourgeois in the Spanish State and Europe.

The Revolutionary Left in Catalonia should oppose both the corrupt Spanish State and the corrupt European Union and NATO and elevate the working class to political leadership of the national struggle for democracy in Catalonia - the working class should win the direction of national liberation.

Support a unilateral declaration of independence

SEE ASLO _https://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/the-national-question-once-again.html