Before talking about Esquerra, let's address the din coming from Madrid. In the end, Pro-Palestinian protests forced the suspension of the final stage of the Vuelta., with 56 kilometers left in the race.

Joan Ridao (Rubí, 1967) is currently a lawyer in the Parliament of Catalonia and has just published Parliamentary law of Catalonia (Atelier Llibres Jurídics, 2025), a compilation of Catalan parliamentary law. However, he had also previously been involved in politics: he was a member of the Catalan Parliament and Congress for the ERC (Republican Left), as well as president of the Institute for the Study of Self-Government.

The truth that has been suffered admits many labels. Judicial truth is that which emerges from a judgment in a trial, as a logical consequence of the evidence presented. It is understood that it will not always coincide with the so-called material truth, what really happened and what is not easy to ascertain. For this view, which does not come from philosophy but from law, what cannot be proven should not be taken into account, especially when sentencing. There is a long-standing struggle between the truth that is demonstrated and that which is proclaimed. Our term TRUE derives from Latin truths, which in turn comes from verus—the root is present in verisimilar, verifiable, true, assert...— and refers us to the idea of firmness. But for the Greeks, it has to do with forgetting. TRUE It would be what does not remain hidden, but is revealed and can, in some way, be remembered and evoked.

Statements by the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, In the interview conducted last Sunday by Núria Orriols in this newspaper They've been leading the way all week and have rekindled one of the most entrenched and unproductive feuds in the Catalan and Spanish political world. It's the one that pits the Catalan right against the Spanish left, with mutual accusations that are always the same and are basically based on prejudices and commonplaces. Ione Belarra herself is one of those figures who loves to express herself with slogans, and she feels reaffirmed when she spouts the clichés that the Catalan right is more or less a reproduction of the Spanish right, because apparently their capacity for observation and analysis of reality is incapable of going beyond it. It's true that the rancid, poor-strangling Catalan exists, and these very days we've seen the president of the employers' association, Josep Sánchez Llibre, almost squirming in his simultaneous bows to the PP, Vox, and Junts for having voted against the 37.5-hour workweek. But it is absurd and unfair for Belarra, and those who think like her, to deny the evidence that a significant portion of the Catalan right (unlike the Spanish) played a fundamental role in the anti-Franco struggle, and that it has also contributed decisively, for better and for worse, to the construction of Spain's battered democracy. On the other hand, and as she has been reminded, it is in poor taste for Belarra to venture into conjectures about what the Mossos d'Esquadra would or would not do in a hypothetical situation, when the Civil Guard and the National Police have such a disgraceful and real history of racism and repression. Even if Podemos managed to force Marlaska to resign, Belarra's voice was barely heard within the Cabinet.

Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz – Friedrich Merz’s full name – has gone from being Angela Merkel’s political rival within the conservative party to becoming Germany’s new chancellor. Merz, 69, will govern Europe’s largest economy for the next four years in coalition with the Social Democrats, after his party won the federal elections last FebruaryAnd after he has gained enough support in the Bundestag to be elected head of government, despite the scare of the first vote, in which he did not obtain enough votes: a warning that he probably will not have a peaceful term in office.

"The extreme right represents the reaction against a left woke which has perhaps gone too far." This commonplace is not normally used to introduce a debate about the Left and the challenges it faces, such as reconciling the defense of individual identities and universality, or like the debate around the uncritical importation of concepts from an Anglo-Saxon postmodernism that feels a lack of the complexity of the complexity of complexity. made by the thick beak of the contemporary Left that consolidates a powerful idea instrumental in the rise of the extreme Right: the existence of a supposed cultural hegemony (what the extreme Right calls Cultural Marxism) of a condescending and authoritarian Left that imposes a new unnatural morality on the average citizen. YouTubers and influencers, there are a number of opinion makers in the traditional media, disguised asenfants terribles although they are often over sixty and have had their lives sorted out for years, who complain that freedom is threatened by the wokismIt is common for the same people who make fun of the "offended woke"They find it intolerable that a feminist corrects them or that someone suggests some formula of "inclusive newspeak", often trying to convert, in the name of exasperating narcissism, their daily pettiness into definitive proof that there are legitimate reasons to rebel. woke and good-natured that violates their freedom.

One of the most revered figures by left-wing intellectuals is Antonio Gramsci, an author who is difficult to read but who contributed a series of ideas that revolutionized the simplistic approach that had characterized (and continues to characterize) militant Marxism. One of his central ideas is that social domination is exercised above all through persuasion, so the most important objective of the dominant classes is that the dominated classes adopt a series of ideas that justify the domination of which they are subject. The work of intellectuals, therefore, is crucial. On the part of some, to impose these ideas; on the part of others, to discredit them and impose others in which domination appears as an unnatural imposition. The intellectual struggle –always following Gramsci– is fought in a series of "battles of position" in each of which the point is whether a specific idea becomes considered common sense, or, on the contrary, ceases to be so. For example, that managers must earn a lot because their work is crucial to the survival of thousands of jobs, or that care work is low-productivity and therefore can only be remunerated modestly.

The term woke It has been a weapon in the hands of the extreme right for years. Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Javier Milei use it without complexes to attack a sector of the left that, in his opinion, intends to put minorities ahead of majorities. The use of woke In a pejorative sense, it has also landed in Catalonia. The PP, Vox and Aliança Catalana –and social networks– have adopted it to disqualify policies in defense of LGBTI and racialized groups that, in Catalonia, have been implemented when Esquerra, from the Generalitat, and the Comuns, in the Barcelona City Council, have governed. Even Junts has joined the bandwagon and in the draft of its political report it even raised the need to battle against "thought" woke– the militancy amended it and, in the final version, the word appears goodism–. Why?