Alan McGuire

Massacre in Melilla – The Sobremesa Podcast

In this week's episode we talk about the brutal killing of 37 migrant people at the hands of Moroccan security services along the border of the Spanish enclave of Melilla, as well as discussing the fallout from the results of the Andalusian elections.

1. Massacre in Melilla 30:32
2. Andalusian Elections and Spain's Right-Turn 39:18
3. The Spanish Government's Historic Feminist Agenda 50:14
4. The Other Special Relationship: Aznar & Blair and the Iraq War with Nathen Jones 01:01:56
5. Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War 54:29

Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is a Spanish academic based in New York and member of Minim, a municipalism observatory. https://minim-municipalism.org/

He sat down with me to discuss modern day Spanish municipalism and the effect it has had on politics and the cities it governed.

For further details on how the municipalism started in Spain, listen to my interview on 15M

The second part of my interview, about the rise of Vox and nationalism, with Vincente will be out later this week.

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