The Young Republican Left of Catalonia (in Catalan: Joventuts d'Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, JERC) is the youth wing of the political party Republican Left of Catalonia (in Catalan: Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC).
According to their principles declaration, their aim is "attaining a democratic society, in which any sign of social or national oppression had disappeared within an ecologically equilibrated territory, by bringing awareness and mobilizing the youth of the Països Catalans.
One of their main activities is an independentist festival, Acampada Jove, which every year congregates hundreds of Catalan independentist youngsters.
Their current spokesperson is Gerard Gómez
Their publication is the magazine LA VEU del jovent (Voice of the Youngster). They use both the blue and red estelada versions.
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—Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)
“We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“I was glad to have got out of the towns, where I am wont to feel unspeakably mean and disgraced,—to have left behind me for a season the bar-rooms of Massachusetts, where the full-grown are not weaned from savage and filthy habits,—still sucking a cigar. My spirits rose in proportion to the outward dreariness. The towns needed to be ventilated. The gods would be pleased to see some pure flames from their altars. They are not to be appeased with cigar-smoke.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)