(L-R) Six pro-independence senior citizens Jaume Sobreques, Albert Roma, Nati Gabriel, Paco Vallespi, Florenci Trullas and Tomas Llusera pose in front of the Catalan flag, on the roof of the Catalonia ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. With Catalonia approaching a momentous regional election on September ...

History is a battlefield in the contentious independence standoff between Spain and Catalan secessionists, pressed into service by each, shaped as a weapon and hurled with abandon. Both sides in the ...

The crisis pitting Spain's government against leaders in Catalonia over an independence referendum banned by Madrid is but the latest episode of centuries of friction between this region and central ...

Introduction by the editors of Argelaga: The “Catalan Manifesto for the Social History of Town and Country”, by Miguel Amorós and Joan Carles Gelabertó, is a vindication of history as a weapon of ...

People react as they celebrate the unilateral declaration of independence of Catalonia outside the Catalan Parliament, in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. Catalonias' regional Parliament ...

BARCELONA—Even along La Rambla, where human statues pose for money and wide-eyed tourists chug down super-size beers, one can imagine that this was the place where some of the opening volleys in the ...

The tensions laid bare between Catalonia and Spain’s federal government over Sunday’s referendum have a long and painful history that reaches back to the Franco era and beyond. But never since Spain ...