David Fernàndez i Ramos
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David Fernàndez i Ramos (Barcelona, September 24, 1974) is a Catalan journalist, political and social activist. He was a member of the Parliament of Catalonia in the tenth legislature for the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) from December 17, 2012, to August 4, 2015.
Born on September 24, 1974, in Barcelona, he spent the first years of his life in Ripoll (Ripollès).[1][2] His paternal grandfather, Saturnino Fernández, with whom he identified politically, was a communist, republican, and staunch anti-Franco militant.[1][2] He studied at the high schools of La Sedeta and Vila de Gràcia, both in Barcelona. He became politically active in the early 1990s.[3] At university, he studied Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) but dropped out in the third year of his degree. He spent two years working as a sheet metal worker in the SEAT car factory, until an injury forced him to leave.[1]
In 2006 he published a critical inquiry into the repressive behaviour of the Spanish police Cròniques del 6 i altres retalls de la claveguera policial. On November 13, 2012, together with Julià de Jòdar, he published an explanatory work on the origins and the aims of the Popular Unity Candidacy, entitled Cop de CUP. In 2013, this was followed by Foc a la barraca, a collection of his articles written in previous years.
He is both a writer and editor of the weekly publication, La Directa.[4]
He has been active in the Catalan cooperative, alternative economy and ethical finance movements.[3]
