Undocumented mostly North African Labour powered the plastic covered irrigated desert fields of almeria twenty years back when I was living in espain, it's not a new phenomenon. Like the tomato fields of Southern Italy, I'm guessing v few Spanish citizens would work as peons in the conditions expected by the landowners.
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Almeria and Murcia (along with Cartagena), were the last cities to fall to the Falangists in the Civil War, and were subject to massive changes in population, including the importation of some of the hardest of the hard core. During the boom there were also a large number of new communities in the region built for affluent retirees, who are not known for their progressive politics.
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Like Valencia trending right in modern times then, after being the final big city to hold out against Franco.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 02-05-2019, 22:41.
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- Mar 2008
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Originally posted by Diable Rouge View Post
Appears so, but if Almería's an indicator, most of these areas were previously PP strongholds. Urgh - PP has ruled Murcia since 1995, going by Wikipedia.
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A breakdown of votes by gender - as tends to be the case all over Europe, it's principally men who vote for the far-right (and indeed further to the left), with women favouring more moderate parties:
http://twitter.com/electo_mania/status/1124571024627064833/photo/2
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Originally posted by Diable Rouge View PostA breakdown of votes by gender - as tends to be the case all over Europe, it's principally men who vote for the far-right (and indeed further to the left), with women favouring more moderate parties:
http://twitter.com/electo_mania/status/1124571024627064833/photo/2
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
could this be because a major driver for the far right is the decline of male privilege, primarily to the benefit of women?
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You do know right that Labour insisted that all of those measures be put in the programme for government against the wishes of their more conservative partners, and forced through the citizens assembly, to give enda Kenny the cover he needed to avoid dealing directly with such issues. Maire Geoghan Quinn takes a lot of the credit for the decrimininalization of Homosexuality, though I would probably suspect it has more to do with the gay, and the bisexual labour ministers that were in that cabinet.
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- Mar 2008
- 9818
- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
There was a Guardian long read about 10 days ago by Meaghan Beatley about the virulent anti feminism in Vox and the PP rightward lurch, linking it to the ‘Wolfpack’ rape trial.
Really interesting and very good on the feminist mobilisations EXCEPT astonishingly, she didn’t mention the women’s general strikes, presumably because social media is more important.
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This is a bizarre stat - 8% of Vox supporters would vote for Catalan independence, which would be the equivalent of Brexit Party voters opting for Remain:
http://twitter.com/electo_mania/status/1126801167500156928
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Perhaps 8% of Vox voters believe that without Catalunya (which in my experience is a fairly small c conservative place) they'd have more of a chance of grabbing at least a share of power in what was left of Spain. (I mean I know that shows an element of pragmatism not usually associated with fascists, but who knows)
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