CATALONIA
" « Class tensions are reaching extreme levels incompatible with
democratic forms of rule. France is under a two-year state of emergency
while Germany has recently seen the election of its first fascistic
parliamentarians since the end of the Nazi regime. Now the Madrid
establishment is rapidly and violently swinging behind Rajoy’s weak
minority government, confirming that while Franco is dead, the class
forces that underlay his regime survived Spain’s 1978 Transition to parliamentary democracy. They are again pressing for authoritarian rule. »
