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The proclamation of the Republic by the Catalan Parliament on October 27th was short-lived. The Spanish state was ready to crush it decisively, while the Catalan government had no plans and no strategy to defend it. That, however, is not the end of the movement. Jorge Martin reports on the perspectives for the struggle for Catalan independence.
Tensions are reaching boiling point in Zimbabwe, with the Army stepping in earlier this week and putting President Robert Mugabe under house arrest. It is clear that a power struggle is taking place to succeed the ageing dictator. Ben Morken in South Africa analyses the volatile situation opening up in Zimbabwe.
The battle between the Spanish state and the Catalan independence movement is not over. We publish here two articles about the fight for a Catalan republic: the first, an analysis by comrades in Lucha de Clases (Spanish section of the IMT); the second, a report by Jorge Martin about the huge general strike seen in Catalonia on this week, on 8th November.
The revelations in the Paradise Papers detailing the offshore tax-avoiding activities of the global elite tell us what we already know: that whilst they demand austerity attacks for the vast majority, the super-rich do not pay their taxes. Ben Gliniecki looks at the latest scandal exposing the hypocrisy of the Establishment and their system.
The decision to jail eight members of the Catalan government, and to issue an arrest warrant for the Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, along with a further four members of his government, is an unprecedented and very serious violation of basic democratic rights. But, as Jorge Martin reports, this attack by the Spanish state has revived the Catalan independence movement.