Igor Zulaika on the importance of Catalan Parliament recognition of Autonomous Administration

International Coordinator for Euskal Herria Bildu, Igor Zulaika, spoke about the importance of the Catalan Parliament's recognition of the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria.

Dr. Jeff Miley of Peace in Kurdistan interviews Igor Zulaika about the significance of the Catalan parliament's recent recognition of the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES), as well as about developments in the Spanish state, especially in relation to the national question.

Igor Zulaika is the International Coordinator for Euskal Herria Bildu, the Basque Country's left, pro-independence coalition. 


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Background

The resolution adopted by the Catalan parliament was voted on 20 October 2021. Its preamble stressed the progressive character of the Rojava revolution’s “democratic confederalism” and the opportunity the strong network of grassroots solidarity between Catalonia and Kurdistan offers “to explore and advance towards forms of reconstruction distant from those of unbridled capitalism”.

It also invoked Catalonia’s example of council-to-council support for Bosnia in the 1990s Yugoslav civil war and the parliament’s 2019-2022 Master Plan for Development and Cooperation, which requires “special attention to the Sahrawi, Palestinian and Kurdish peoples”.