Defending the Spanish language on the streets

Several thousand people took to the streets in Barcelona this weekend to protest at Catalan language nationalism. Among other things they demanded that their children be taught in Spanish at Catalan schools. The conservative daily ABC sides with the demonstrators: "It's obvious that the policy of language normalisation has become a compulsion based on an obsession with identity and leads to discrimination against Castilian [Spanish] as well as those who want the latter to be taught at primary schools. At the demonstration, which was initiated by 20 organisations and civic initiatives as well as the People's Party and the Ciudadanos [party], there was not a single representative of [the Spanish ruling party] PSOE, which was yesterday accused of conspiring with the regional governments to violate the language law."

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