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NDP Newbie
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posted 24 August 2004 05:57 PM      Profile for NDP Newbie     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
And we love him for it..

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0408190268aug19,1,2506422.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

Social liberalisation, secularisation, all the things that made the Lesage era great for Quebec cre coming to Spain.

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lagatta
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posted 24 August 2004 06:20 PM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
NDP Newbie, please correct your sidescroll!!! It is screwing up the entire board. Go to the URL function on the board, or it it fails to work for you, to www.tinyurl.com -

As to the substance of your thread, I doubt very much that the Spanish Socialist Party PM has heard of Jean Lesage or the Quiet Revolution in Québec. Not quite the same context - there were a lot of very radical reforms and social experiments in Republican Spain: Franco led a counter-revolution - since he and Salazar in Portugal remained officially neutral, they weren't booted out like the Italian and German fascists. Duplessis' regime had many authoritarian, fascistic characteristics but it was not fascist rule in the sense of those regimes in Europe. They murdered thousands (millons in the case of the Nazis) of political opponents and other enemies.

The reforms by the PS government in terms of women's and gay rights and their seriousness about the issue of conjugal violence - a very serious problem in Spain - are most welcome indeed.

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Agent 204
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posted 25 August 2004 01:17 AM      Profile for Agent 204   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Had to laugh at this:

quote:

In some cases, the proposed package of laws designed to increase the rights of women and homosexuals would place Spain well left of the United States.

And just tell me, who in Europe is not well to the left of the United States?

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HalfAnHourLater
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posted 25 August 2004 08:00 AM      Profile for HalfAnHourLater     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Mike Keenan:
Had to laugh at this:

And just tell me, who in Europe is not well to the left of the United States?

England.

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