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A Catalan independence protest in July 2010. The Catalan independence movement (Catalan: independentisme català; [a] Spanish: independentismo catalán; Occitan: independentisme catalan) is a social and political movement (with roots in Catalan nationalism) which seeks the independence of Catalonia from Spain.
Estelada, flag used by Estat Català and the most representative symbol of Catalan independence movement from the 1920s onwards. The Catalan workers movement at the turn of the twentieth century consisted of three tendencies: syndicalism, socialism, and anarchism, part of the last openly embracing "propaganda of the deed" as advocated by ...
The Catalan declaration of independence (Catalan: Declaració d'independència de Catalunya) was a resolution that was passed by the Parliament of Catalonia on 27 October 2017. While the text proclaims the independence of Catalonia from Spain and the establishment of an independent Catalan Republic , the declaration itself did not receive ...
Spain's Catalonia region holds an election on Sunday with big implications for the Socialist-led national government and a pro-independence movement rumbling for a decade. WHEN DID THE ...
The movement for independence has been heating up since. ... voters in the Spanish region of Catalonia have given a clear majority of votes to parties seeking referendum on independence from Spain ...
There have been several Catalan independence referendums for determining the independence of Catalonia from Spain. 2017 Catalan independence referendum.
The Catalan statute of autonomy also proved popular, with 53% of voters supporting it in October 1979 (with a 60% turnout). [21] In the 1980 Catalan elections, the centrist Convergence and Union (CiU) unexpectedly won with 28% of the vote, ahead of the socialist PSC and communist PSUC. This allowed Terra Lliure to gain some support for its ...
Sánchez, whose government has already granted pardons to several jailed leaders of the Catalan independence movement, says the amnesty will be positive for Spain because it will calm waters ...