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“Riot police have clashed with voters and smashed their way into a polling station as an illegal independence referendum begins in Catalonia,” reported Marc Stone from Sky News. Last week’s excessive brutality and heavy-handed approach to crack down on participants in the referendum was an outrage for Spanish parliamentary democracy. The violation of the ruleContinue reading “A Democratic but Self-Interested, Abusive Spain? A History of Catalan Repression and Spanish Conservatism”