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The Spanish State, Frying
in its Own Grease
Rubén Tzanoff, Socialismo y Libertad Leader
The Spanish state walks along the edge and does not have a good perspective. It is essential to build a new alternative of the anti-capitalist left, to build a revolutionary and socialist party to achieve strategic changes. The struggle of the Catalan people is writing a new chapter in its long history as an oppressed nationality. At present, it has received a new boost by an unfair, vindictive and loathsome sentence against its political prisoners. On Monday, October 14, the Spanish Supreme Court (TS) announced its ruling to the leaders of the Proces of Independence. There were no discrepancies between the seven magistrates chaired by Manuel Marchena, who unanimously decided 69
a punishment of 9 to 13 years in prison for “sedition” for the former vice president of the Generalitat, Oriol Junqueras; former councelors Jordi Turull, Josep Rull, Joaquim Forn, Raül Romeva, and Dolors Bassa; the former president of the Parliament, Carme Forcadell, and the leaders of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and Òmnium, Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart. Junqueras and the other five former counselors that are already incarcerated were also convicted of “embezzlement.” The prosecution’s case was based on the crime of “rebellion with violence”, and backed by the lies, contradictions and concealment by senior officials and members of the Civil Guard. The accusation was refuted by the defense´s witnesses, whose testimonies were 69
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