Somatemps

The first meeting of the entity was attended by both leaders of Platform for Catalonia (PxC) and the Republican Social Movement (MSR) with Juan Antonio Llopart, referents to Spain of parties such as the Greek Golden Dawn or the British National Party (BNP) and fascist movements such as Casa Pound.{{Cite journal|last=Viñas|first=Carles|date=2013|title=De l'extrema dreta al nacional-populisme|url=http://www.raco.cat/index.php/diversia/article/view/271359|journal=DivÈrsia|issue=4|issn=2014-8429}} Somatemps is considered a far-right organization as per police{{Cite web|url=https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/jordi-borras-el-nucli-fundador-de-societat-civil-catalana-es-somatemps-organitzacio-dextrema-dreta/|title=Jordi Borràs: 'El nucli fundador de Societat Civil Catalana és Somatemps, organització d'extrema dreta'|website=VilaWeb.cat|language=ca|access-date=2018-04-13}} and press sources.{{Cite news|url=http://www.antena3.com/noticias/espana/ultraderechistas-y-antifascistas-se-manifiestan-sin-altercados-en-barcelona_201711185a1061530cf2ebaa16867891.html|title=Ultraderechistas y antifascistas se manifiestan sin altercados en Barcelona|date=2017-11-18|work=Antena3.com|access-date=2018-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414151748/http://www.antena3.com/noticias/espana/ultraderechistas-y-antifascistas-se-manifiestan-sin-altercados-en-barcelona_201711185a1061530cf2ebaa16867891.html|archive-date=2018-04-14|language=es|quote=Los vecinos de la plaza Artós habían convocado, con el apoyo de organizaciones ultraderechistas como Somatemps, una concentración de rechazo a la manifestación convocada por Unitat Contra el Feixisme y el Racisme (UCFR), que tenía el lema "Unánomos contra las agresiones fascistas".}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.eldiario.es/catalunya/politica/MINUTO-Diada_13_685361458_12641.html|title=50 ultras se manifiestan frente a los estudios de Catalunya Ràdio|website=eldiario.es|date=10 September 2017 |language=es|access-date=2018-04-14}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.eldiario.es/catalunya/politica/MINUTO-Diada_13_685361458_12411.html|title=VÍDEO {{!}} Concentración ultra ante la sede de la ANC|website=Hazte socio de eldiario.es|date=10 September 2017 |language=es|access-date=2018-04-14}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.elplural.com/politica/2017/12/17/sale-escoltado-el-grupo-de-ultras-que-protestaba-por-la-muerte-de-victor-lainez|title=Sale escoltado el grupo de ultras que protestaba por la muerte de Víctor Laínez|last=Caballero|first=Nacho|date=2017-12-17|work=elplural.com|access-date=2018-04-14|language=es}}

Josep Alsina, who succeeded Bosch in Somatemps, when he was young he had been a member of the NSSP, the National Socialist Spanish Party or PENS, Partido Español Nacional Socialista in Spanish. PENS is a neo-Nazi organization created in Barcelona in 1970 and that had strong links with the secret services of the Superior Center of Defense Information (SECED), to the point that he could pay a local and print large runs of Nazi propaganda. The PENS came to commit attacks against bookstores, cinemas and theaters or distributors of books and publishing houses. Alsina also relates Jorge Buxadé Villalba, who has publicly acknowledged being a member of Catalan Civil Society,{{Cite news|url=https://www.ara.cat/premium/politica/excandidat-falangista-Societat-Civil-Catalana_0_1208879241.html|title=Un excandidat falangista fa equip amb Societat Civil Catalana|work=Ara.cat|access-date=2018-05-09|language=ca}} and who attended the 7th nomination of Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista (FE de las JONS) for Tarragona in the 1995 Catalan elections.{{Cite news|url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20090907/53780516054/un-ex-candidato-de-falange-frente-a-una-ex-conseller-comunista.html|title=Un ex candidato de Falange frente a una ex conseller comunista|work=La Vanguardia|access-date=2018-05-09|language=es}} Buxadé also became a State Attorney in September 2009, under the orders of the Spanish Government, when he challenged the consultation on the independence of Catalonia held in Arenys de Munt.{{Cite news|url=http://www.elcritic.cat/investigacio/els-vincles-ocults-de-lextrema-dreta-amb-societat-civil-catalana-2365|title=Els vincles ocults de l'extrema dreta amb Societat Civil Catalana|work=Crític|access-date=2018-03-31|language=ca}}

Somatemps also received the help of the lawyer Ariadna Hernández, at that time coordinating VOX in the demarcation of Barcelona and partner of one of the main drivers of the neofascist Casal Tramuntana, the councilor of PxC in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat Alberto Sánchez.{{Cite web|url=https://directa.cat/somatemps-forca-de-xoc-de-lespanyolisme-catalunya|title=Somatemps, la força de xoc de l'espanyolisme a Catalunya|last=Directa|website=Directa|language=ca-ES|access-date=2018-03-31}} Journalist Xavier Rius has even come to the point that Catalan Civil Society has had contacts with which he was delegated from the Spanish government in Catalonia, María de los Llanos de Luna, contacts but Bosch denies insistently despite the fact that there are photographs of the meeting.{{Cite web|url=https://xavier-rius.blogspot.com.es/2014/08/societat-civil-catalana-rebutja-que-pxc.html|title=Xavier Rius Sant: SOCIETAT CIVIL CATALANA REBUTJA QUE PxC I ALTRES ULTRES PARTICIPIN AMB PANCARTES O SÍMBOLS PROPIS L'11-S A L'ACTE DE TARRAGONA. Anglada no hi participarà. SCC Intenta desmarcar-se dels seus origens i de Somatempts, tot i que Bosch continua com a president de SCC. PxC respon dient que no és xenòfoba. Legalitzada PDxC|last=Sant|first=Xavier Rius|date=2014-08-22|website=Xavier Rius Sant|access-date=2018-03-31}}

The entity organized in December 2013 in Ripoll the 1st Congress of Spanish Catalanity in which the ex democratic socialist Joaquim Coll (member of Catalan Civil Society) and the People's Party Fernando Sánchez-Costa participated.{{Cite news|url=https://www.dolcacatalunya.com/2014/06/somatemps-desconcerta-el-nacionalisme-1er-congres-de-catalanitat-hispanica-a-ripoll/|title=Somatemps desconcerta el nacionalisme: 1er Congrès de Catalanitat Hispànica a Ripoll.|date=2014-06-18|work=Dolça Catalunya|access-date=2018-03-31|language=es-ES}} He was also organizing protests in front of the Convergence and Union headquarters for the Pujol case, which was joined by Platform for Catalonia (PxC) before Parliament for the same reason.

Entities like Spain and Catalans in 2012 and Som Catalunya, Som Espanya in 2013, had wanted to publicly commemorate the Hispanic Day in Barcelona, but they did not manage to concentrate a sufficiently large attendance. Somatemps tried to take over the relief by convening the founding assembly on April 26 at the Poblet Monastery. A few days ago, an event had already been held in Barcelona where the presentation of the Catalan Civil Society was attended by, among others, the extreme right of Santiago Abascal, general secretary of the new Vox and Borja García-Nieto, the president of the Equestrian Circle.{{Cite news|url=http://jborras.cat/blog/item/288-una-viscera-i-dues-til%C2%B7les-la-presentacio-de-societat-civil-catalana.html|title=Jordi Borràs - Una víscera i dues til·les: la presentació de Societat Civil Catalana|last=Borràs|first=Jordi|access-date=2018-03-31|language=ca-es}} Somatemps did not adhere to the rally on October 12 in Barcelona although they were present.

In the context of the Spanish constitutional crisis and before the 1-O Catalan independence referendum of 2017, Somatemps participated in the so-called "ham operation"{{Cite news|url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/20170927/prensa-hoy-27-09-2017-6313529|title=De precintar colegios, de Trump y Rajoy, y de la Warner y los derechos de Piolín|last=Campreciós|first=Xavier|date=2017-09-27|work=elperiodico|access-date=2018-04-14|language=ES}} which sent 25 kg of Iberian ham and boxes of Rioja wine to the Spanish police and Civil Guard agents summoned in Barcelona by the Spanish government. The agents were allocated in hotels and ships docked in Barcelona's seaport. Somatemps organized a donation campaign which obtained around 2.500 euros of funds for the symbolic operation.{{Cite news|url=http://www.lasexta.com/programas/el-intermedio/imbatible-dani-mateo/dani-mateo-a-los-catalanes-implicados-en-la-operacion-jamon-pronto-os-enfrentareis-a-un-enemigo-mas-poderoso-la-obesidad_2017092759cc167a0cf2bf21ab92f22d.html|title=Así es la 'Operación Jamón', la campaña contra la independencia que vela por la Policía: "Se enfrentarán a su peor enemigo, la obesidad"|work=laSexta.com|access-date=2018-04-14|language=es}} Other actions in which Somatemps has participated involved bringing food to the policemen.{{Cite news|url=https://www.diaridetarragona.com/catalunya/Cubren-con-lonas-los-dibujos-de-Piolin-del-barco-plagado-de-policias-20170925-0008.html|title=Cubren con lonas los dibujos de Piolín del barco plagado de policías|date=2017-09-25|work=Diari de Tarragona|access-date=2018-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414161020/https://www.diaridetarragona.com/catalunya/Cubren-con-lonas-los-dibujos-de-Piolin-del-barco-plagado-de-policias-20170925-0008.html|archive-date=2018-04-14|language=es-ES}}

On November 18, 2017 Somatemps participated in a far-right demonstration supporting the Spanish unionism. This demonstration opposed a demonstration call made by Unit Against Fascism and Racism.

This organisation is of Spanish Nationalist nature. They believe that a constitution is irrelevant for Spain, and despise the concepts of freedom and social equality expressed in the current constitution. They promote a Spain formed by a single political nation, alluding to what they believe was the old Spanish Empire.{{Cite news|url=https://somatemps.me/2017/11/02/entrevista-a-josep-alsina-sueno-con-una-cataluna-hispanica/|title=ENTREVISTA A Josep Alsina: "Sueño con una Cataluña hispánica"|date=2017-11-02|access-date=2018-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717144623/https://somatemps.me/2017/11/02/entrevista-a-josep-alsina-sueno-con-una-cataluna-hispanica/|archive-date=17 July 2018|language=es-ES|quote=Existen ideas y proyectos diferentes sobre España. La versión “constitucionalista”, compartida por PP, C’s y PSOE concibe España como un agregado de individuos “libres e iguales”, unidos por algo tan banal como una constitución, y su único proyecto es ser una “marca” competitiva y seguir con fidelidad perruna las directrices de la UE y del FMI. Para la versión hispanista, que es la que nosotros defendemos, España es una nación política, heredera de una estructura precedente, que fue el Imperio Hispánico, y que debe reafirmar su soberanía, no solamente frente al separatismo, sino también frente al mundialismo y a la globalización. Es una España una y diversa, que rechaza el uniformismo y el centralismo jacobinos como ideas contrarias a la tradición política Hispánica.}} By proposing a single political nation, they deny the existence of national and regional identities in Spain and their corresponding political movements. This means they pursue some sort of imperialism with a single political nation ruling over the rest. In consequence, they are positioned against Catalan Nationalism.

Catalan education system which makes extensive use of Catalan as tuition language is also against Somatemps doctrine.{{Cite news|url=https://somatemps.me/2017/10/17/entrevista-xavier-codorniu-secretario-de-somatemps-analiza-la-fractura-social-en-cataluna/|title=ENTREVISTA: Xavier Codorníu, Secretario de SOMATEMPS, analiza la fractura social en Cataluña|date=2017-10-17|access-date=2018-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406111721/https://somatemps.me/2017/10/17/entrevista-xavier-codorniu-secretario-de-somatemps-analiza-la-fractura-social-en-cataluna/|archive-date=6 April 2018|language=es-ES}} Somatemps claims that pupils in Catalonia are indoctrinated into Catalan nationalism, something which multiple studies have refuted, identifying as main factors parental and neighbourhood influence.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/is-catalonia-using-schools-as-a-political-weapon/544898/|title=Is Catalonia Using Schools as a Political Weapon?|last=Wong|first=Alia|date=2017-11-03|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2018-07-16|language=en-US}} Other points which Somatemps defend to support Spanish Nationalism is to point out a supposed Catalan history revisionism.

Somatemps opposes to policies and campaigns aiding immigrants,{{Cite web|url=https://somatemps.me/2017/05/22/hamburgo-requisa-casas-para-entregarlas-a-migrantes/|title=Hamburgo requisa casas para entregarlas a migrantes|date=2017-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011022754/https://somatemps.me/2017/05/22/hamburgo-requisa-casas-para-entregarlas-a-migrantes/|archive-date=2017-10-11|access-date=2018-10-12}}{{Cite web|url=https://somatemps.me/2018/08/23/yo-quiero-ser-inmigrante-y-cobrar-1-062-euros-mes-por-la-rmi/|title=Yo quiero ser inmigrante y cobrar 1.062 euros/mes por la RMI|date=2017-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012233639/https://somatemps.me/2018/08/23/yo-quiero-ser-inmigrante-y-cobrar-1-062-euros-mes-por-la-rmi/|archive-date=2018-10-12|access-date=2018-10-12}}{{Cite web|url=http://somatemps.me/2015/10/26/ong-europea-distribuye-una-guia-de-trucos-para-que-los-inmigrantes-ilegales-lleguen-a-europa-financia-soros/|title=ONG europea distribuye una guía de trucos para que los inmigrantes ilegales lleguen a Europa ¿financia Soros?|date=2015-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026210741/http://somatemps.me/2015/10/26/ong-europea-distribuye-una-guia-de-trucos-para-que-los-inmigrantes-ilegales-lleguen-a-europa-financia-soros/|archive-date=2015-10-26|access-date=2018-10-12}} including those from Red Cross and Plataforma per la Llengua{{Cite web|url=https://somatemps.me/2018/05/07/cruz-roja-en-cataluna-hace-juego-al-separatismo-instando-a-los-inmigrantes-a-que-hablen-en-catalan/|title=Cruz Roja en Cataluña hace juego al separatismo instando a los inmigrantes a que hablen en catalán|date=2018-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012235126/https://somatemps.me/2018/05/07/cruz-roja-en-cataluna-hace-juego-al-separatismo-instando-a-los-inmigrantes-a-que-hablen-en-catalan/|archive-date=2018-10-12|access-date=2018-10-12}} which promote the learning of Catalan language among immigrants with the purpose of improving equality of opportunities.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elnacional.cat/es/cultura-ideas-artes/plataforma-llengua-cruz-roja-catalan-entre-refugiados_260325_102.html|title=Plataforma per la Llengua y Cruz Roja promueven el catalán entre los refugiados|website=ElNacional.cat|date=20 April 2018 |access-date=2018-10-13}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.plataforma-llengua.cat/que-fem/noticies/3696/la-plataforma-per-la-llengua-i-la-creu-roja-amb-el-catala-com-a-llengua-darrelament|title=La Plataforma per la Llengua i la Creu Roja, amb el català com a llengua d'arrelament|website=Plataforma per la Llengua|language=ca|access-date=2018-10-13}}

Somatemps supports political catholicism, positioning the Catholic Church as a part of their view of a Spanish nation.{{Cite news|url=https://somatemps.me/2018/07/08/misa-por-la-unidad-de-espana-y-de-la-iglesia-galeria-fotos/|title=Misa por la Unidad de España y de la Iglesia Galería fotos)|date=2018-07-08|access-date=2018-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013124403/https://somatemps.me/2018/07/08/misa-por-la-unidad-de-espana-y-de-la-iglesia-galeria-fotos/|archive-date=2018-10-13|language=es-ES|quote=Poco a poco, en Cataluña se va forjando un espíritu de restauración patria que se funda en algo más que las meras disputas políticas.}}{{Cite news|url=https://somatemps.me/2017/09/11/el-independentismo-es-pecado-por-enrique-martinez/|title="El independentismo es pecado" por Enrique Martínez|date=2017-09-11|access-date=2018-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304180631/https://somatemps.me/2017/09/11/el-independentismo-es-pecado-por-enrique-martinez/|archive-date=2018-03-04|language=es-ES|quote=Que la Iglesia predique no sólo la unidad propia, sino también la de las naciones, fácilmente escandalizará a los que separan el orden de la fe y el de la política. Pero hay que recordarles que eso es el modernismo –«el católico se debe separar del ciudadano»-, condenado por san Pío X en la encíclica Pascendi. En el orden natural es propio de todos los hombres desear la unión con otros: en el matrimonio y la familia, en la amistad, en la comunidad política… Y es que toda la diversidad de lo creado busca imitar la Unidad divina de donde proviene.}} LGBT campaigns are belittled as an offence to their religious sentiments.{{Cite news|url=https://somatemps.me/2017/05/09/el-grup-radical-arran-realitza-una-brutal-campanya-lgtbi-arremetent-contra-lesglesia-i-institucions/|title=El grup radical Arran realitza una brutal campanya LGTBI, arremetent contra l'Església i institucions|date=2017-05-09|access-date=2018-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512140817/https://somatemps.me/2017/05/09/el-grup-radical-arran-realitza-una-brutal-campanya-lgtbi-arremetent-contra-lesglesia-i-institucions/|archive-date=2017-05-12|language=es-ES}}{{Cite news|url=https://somatemps.me/2016/06/26/forcades-a-una-exposicio-blasfema-lgtb-al-museu-dels-sant-dolot/|title=Forcades a una exposició blasfema LGTB al Museu dels Sants d´Olot.|date=2016-06-26|access-date=2018-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160626211124/https://somatemps.me/2016/06/26/forcades-a-una-exposicio-blasfema-lgtb-al-museu-dels-sant-dolot/|archive-date=2016-06-26|language=es-ES}} In their blog they have criticised the pride parade for indecency,{{Cite news|url=https://somatemps.me/2016/06/30/orgullo-gay-esperemos-que-el-pacma-proteste-energicamente-por-maltrato-al-oso/|title=¿Orgullo Gay? … esperemos que el PACMA proteste enérgicamente por maltrato al oso.|date=2016-06-30|access-date=2018-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611034735/https://somatemps.me/2016/06/30/orgullo-gay-esperemos-que-el-pacma-proteste-energicamente-por-maltrato-al-oso/|archive-date=2017-06-11|language=es-ES}} published texts deeming laws which protect the LGBT group as unnecessary and indoctrinating,{{Cite news|url=https://somatemps.me/2017/06/24/el-dia-del-complejo-gay-por-custodio-ballester/|title="El día del complejo gay" por Custodio Ballester|date=2017-06-24|access-date=2018-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027085714/https://somatemps.me/2017/06/24/el-dia-del-complejo-gay-por-custodio-ballester/|archive-date=2017-10-27|language=es-ES|quote=Con el agravante de la pura teatralización del asunto: porque las doctrinas, por más que las expliquen, no acaban de calar. Aunque estén afianzadas y remachadas por las leyes. No hay manera de que penetren en las conciencias. Así que se recurre a los ritos, que se instalan más fácilmente en forma de fiestas: y por ese medio se asientan en la sociedad. A ese fin está orientada esa teatralización, esa especie de festivales étnicos convertidos en festivales plurisexuales. Poco sostenibles de todos modos si no hay doctrinas sólidas en que sostenerlos. A ese paso, cualquier día nos montan el festival de los eructos y demás manifestaciones fisiológicas exhibidas con orgullo.}} and texts against same-sex marriage and abortion.{{Cite news|url=https://somatemps.me/2017/12/24/actuall-la-clave-masonica-del-nombramiento-del-rosacruz-moragas-como-embajador-de-la-onu/|title=ACTUALL: La clave masónica del nombramiento del rosacruz Moragas como embajador de la ONU|date=2017-12-24|access-date=2018-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013131418/https://somatemps.me/2017/12/24/actuall-la-clave-masonica-del-nombramiento-del-rosacruz-moragas-como-embajador-de-la-onu/|archive-date=2018-10-13|language=es-ES|quote=Y después se han infiltrado los lobbies LGTB cuyo objetivo es subvertir el matrimonio formado por hombre y mujer, y el lobby abortista, cuyo objetivo es convertir el aborto en derecho humano.}}{{Cite news|url=https://somatemps.me/2014/12/28/28-de-diciembre-santos-inocentes-el-drama-del-aborto-2-millones-desde-1985/|title=28 de diciembre, Santos Inocentes: El drama del aborto, 2 millones desde 1985.|date=2014-12-28|access-date=2018-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307212331/https://somatemps.me/2014/12/28/28-de-diciembre-santos-inocentes-el-drama-del-aborto-2-millones-desde-1985/|archive-date=2016-03-07|language=es-ES}}

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