2020 took away from us a legend who turned playing football into a political act.
Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His latest books are 'Being at Large. Freedom i... n the Age of Alternative Facts' (2020) and 'Why Only Art Can Save Us' (2017). His webpage is www.santiagozabala.com.
2020 took away from us a legend who turned playing football into a political act.
Philosophical proposals on a reorganisation of global economy and political ecology could help us find the way forward.
And they are desperately trying to use it to stay in power.
The new brand of populism which bases its political programme directly in the power of social media should scare us all.
Jailed Catalan leaders and the exhumation of Franco’s remains are the two issues at the top of Spain’s election agenda.
Fascism today aims to transform democratic systems from within, rendering it more dangerous than its past incarnations.
A failure of the Spanish left to win the April 28 vote and form a government would usher the far-right Vox into power.
What is behind the unexpected rise of Spain’s racist, homophobic and anti-immigrant Vox party?
To what extent did the events of May 1968 transform Western European society?
What is happening in Catalonia is a symptom of much larger crisis that liberal democracies are suffering from.