Coming to you from lovely Barcelona. You know how sometimes I object to some of the blogs using terms like "fascist" and "Stalinist," mostly because they´re so absurd? I object in part because in places like Barcelona and wider Catalonia, those words have serious meaning, or used to. Barcelona is where the Anarchists and Trotkyites were closest to establishing their ideological utopia in the 1930s until the Stalinists crushed in order to serve the interests of the Popular Front strategy of the global left. While the left was divided, the fascists under Franco took control of Spain with the help of Nazi and Italian fascist units. Read Orwell´s famous Homage to Catalonia on this front (we stayed in the hotel where he recovered from his wounds from the civil war last night). Anyway, the point is that all these labels have meaning and to toss them about as some do is not good. Word has it that Randell Beck´s column on Sunday failed to come to grips with the reality of the situation with the Argus last year. Will get the that. In the meantime, here´s a shot from a workers´ demonstration in downtown Barcelona yesterday. I think they were protesting a factory shutdown. Oh, and we also talked with Barcepundit!
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