>strong>Campaña de la Asamblea Nacional Catalana en Argentina
an action was carried out at the Congress for the freedom of political prisoners and self-determination of Catalonia. The ANC in Argentina is conducting various activities as part of an international campaign it requires the State Spanish Catalan freedom of political prisoners and respect for the right to self-determination.
They made last 12 February 2018 an act against the National Congress, on the occasion of start in arbitrary trial prisoners and Catalan leaders they are now circulating a statement to the Argentine people calling for solidarity with their just cause. From the MST and anti-capitalist in Red accompany these actions demanding the annulment of the fraudulent judicial instance and in defense of Catalan independence vote in the referendum 1-O 2017.
Then, We reproduce the report to Carlos Vilanova, ANC coordinator in Argentina, and the declaration of the Catalan organization.
What can you tell us about the trial that began today in Spain?
CV: It is a political trial. They are the representatives of the Catalan government that went into exile, plus the President of Parliament of Catalonia, plus Jordis, What are the social representatives. They accuse them of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement Almost nothing!
They are not military, there was no moment of violence, except that of the Spanish forces when they tried to suppress the referendum. Thus, no rebellion, nor sedition. And neither embezzlement, because spending was not made through the Generalitat, if not social organizations, which they were the ones that put the money to make the referendum.
Because this is neither more nor less than due to present a referendum even though the Spanish government said it was illegal. The resolution was very simple, if you do not want to recognize, do not recognize and that's. No, they had to send to the Spanish police, because they do not trust Catalan, and we saw what we saw on October. And as a result there came the problem.
On October the Catalans voted for independence how do you see the struggle for self-determination?
CV: 1-O was voted by the Catalan Republic and the 43% It was recorded vote. It is estimated that Spanish forces managed to abduct 700.000 votes. And in any case the 98% of the votes counted vote was yes for the Catalan Republic. With these figures if the referendum would have been legal, most likely there had been more, there is no denying the approval of the Catalan Republic.
Based on this and taking into account that once the government of President Puigdemont said the referendum he would be considered binding, he 27 October independence was declared the Catalan Republic accordingly.
But immediately afterwards the declaration was suspended to give time to stand and possible negotiations with Spain. As a result of that we are still so ....
How's the fight for the freedom of prisoners?
CV: The Catalans always do the same, express what. And do always viewpoint of nonviolence as possible. In Argentina we are far, Even so, doing what we're doing now, We give us to know, that's enough.
Of course there is the thing otherwise. There the thing is much more committed. There is now a general strike. Today Barcelona has been cut from several points. And at several sites in Catalonia there have been significant cuts. In fact, as trials progress, as they move forward, the thing is going to be warming, heating and heating ....
Predictably, It is sung to be so, the sentence to be guilty. From there, we'll see ... But I think, If this is so, as going, just it is going to be an option and that the government of Quim Torra lift the suspension of the declaration of independence and go Go for the Republic and all! That has to be the final output.
He interviewed Gustavo Giménez
CATALAN LETTER TO ARGENTINE
The following sentence is written on a monument in Buenos Aires:
"Making a people act against the natural conditions of his being as free people are wasting their activity is diverting progress by routing the reverse."
Esteban Echeverria (1.805 – 1.855)
304 years we wanted to return to the Catalans have the right to be.
With the Constitution 78 we believed, at least most, to have that right as a people could go back to and as citizens to be what we have always been, Catalan. But it turned out that this right was limited. The Catalans are Spanish share, we want to pay and be silent, or at least that's the general feeling.
Not that we complain to contribute to the state more than anyone since we are the community that produces, We complained that contribution only has one direction, to Spain. Whenever they were asked to successive Spanish governments investments needed, They never exceed our contribution and they were also good for all, They ningunearon us, they lied or did not fulfill their promises. Only when there were minority governments they were heard the Catalan deputies, They needed his vote, Meanwhile the Popular Party gained votes insulting. So, now is the extreme right and citizens who win votes threatening.
Until in 2.010 in plant. Came the, so, President Zapatero and, to a growing anger, He let go of that famous phrase that still resonates: "I approve what the Catalan Parliament approves". He lied. 24 articles gouged or modified the draft statute as approved by the Parliament, He returned to Catalonia and was voted and approved in a referendum 43% of the total electoral roll, It was a record abstention. And so, the Popular Party, owner knowing the Constitutional Court, it turned, 14 more articles were suppressed in a legally questionable judgment. We had been despised again, the will of the people was no longer sovereign for the simple fact that we were Catalans. They had the right to punish us to defend our own language, our idiosyncrasy, our being.
And the Catalans, offended, we get angry and we dream what we had lost 300 years ago.
And so, following demonstrations of a million people each 11 of September, came the events of October last 2.017, of all publicly known and cynically denied by Spain. We were denied the right to speak and be heard with an illuminating democratically referendum. We wanted to take the vows with batons, even so almost two and a quarter million voted, yes to independence approached the 90% of the vote counted. It is estimated that the repressive actions of the occupation forces - which acted as such - hijacked the vote of nearly three quarters of a million citizens.
And I wonder: Do the people have no right to self-determination? And what's even worse Does the Catalans have no right to our democratic dignity being as we have been throughout our history a profoundly democratic people?.
Spain's answer to these questions is put in jail legitimate political representatives and social, whose only fault is to have fulfilled its election promises or represent their civic and cultural associations peacefully, or as the case Carme Forcadell, have allowed a vote in the Parliament of Catalonia at that time presided. Highlighting above all the world who are victims of political repression, They are prisoners of conscience, political prisoners over 500 day remand. Has said Europe and the Committee for Human Rights of the UN as well as several international NGOs. Clear, They could not stop several million Catalans, it is easier to "decapitate" the movement of some "irresponsible politicians", says propaganda, to conceal a self-organized social majority exists, it is a people moving not a simple radical and populist group, which it is a popular claim, democratic and peaceful, and that violence always exercised by Spain.
Tell us Argentines: Do you remember those Catalans, in 1.810, they wanted to be Argentine?, How those meetings in the Cabildo? ¿De Blas Parera? And yet despite the differences of the historical moment Is not the same republican spirit that moved to them which now moves to the heirs of that town they were born? Tell us in the soul: Do you shall not do honor to his memory to support the new Republic of an old village?
Decidnos, Argentine: Do we forsake alone?
VIVA REPUBLICS AND ARGENTINA CATALANA!!
Carlos Vilanova
Coordinator
ASCATALAN NATIONAL seem in Argentina
reproduced from Anticapitalist Network
22.2.2019
