Tension is rising fast in Catalonia due to:
- The Hunger Strike of the Republican leaders still incarcerated for calling a successful Referendum
- The insulting anti Catalan stance of the new Spanish president and continuing racist campaign in Spain whipping up support and spawning a new rabidly fascist sexist party, VOX, and an upsurge in fascist street attacks.
- The calling of a Spanish Council of Ministers in Barcelona on 21-D, with a mass import of special police, on the anniversary of elections which confirmed Republican support

- The continuing High and Constitutional Court verdicts that are blatantly anti Catalan and neo-fascist.
- Frustration that the French Yellow Vests achieve their aims in weeks by violence while Catalans are repressed, mocked and vilified while enforcing pacifism.
Huge Catalog of Actions planned already for 21/December
info from Vilaweb The ANC(Catalan National Assembly, 80,000 members) is organizing a slow march of vehicles to Barcelona on 21-D to the ‘Ciutat de la Justícia’ Law Courts, from at 9 a.m

Òmnium (128,000 members) calls for a “popular alternative Council of Ministers” with other civil society organizations, organizations in favor of human rights, in the field of education and health, and even trade unions.
The hunger strike of political prisoners
Sánchez, Turull, Rull and Forn, of the 9 still imprisoned for calling the Oct 2017 Referendum, began a hunger strike on Dec 1st to protest that the Spanish Constitutional Court delays and blocking a Strasbourg Court appeal. The strike continues with rapidly building social protest promoting the ´´Great Country Stoppage on 21-December”. .They are now joined in hunger strike by Josep Andreu (ERC),
Autonomous Rapid Action Groups
(Grups Autònoms d’Accions Ràpides). According to a statement released by these groups, they have been set up so as to “not have to receive orders or guidelines from anyone, so that if one falls, the others will continue to perform their actions independently.”
Their objective is the “boycott” and “sabotage” of roads, railways, industrial zones and even communications cabling on 21st December.
300 Autonomous Groups call Blockade
Call to block the Llotja de Mar venue by Defend Republic Committees (CDRs)
The CDR have summoned people to the Llotja de Mar, 21 at the beginning of the morning, with the slogans ‘Tombem el régimen’ (Lets bring Down the Regime) and ‘Desbordemos’ (‘Lets Flood them’ (with demonstrators): the provocative Spanish Government meeting is to be held in a building between the harbour and the old city of Barcelona. Even the police have complained it cannot be defended without closing down the city) .
The CDR recommend “collective intelligence and organization”, and ask everybody to reserve the date of December 21 and pay attention to the official channels for possible mobilizations.The CDRs are a unique example of horizontal popular self-organization, on the lines of the 15M local assemblies or the anarchist committees of the Spanish Revolution. 
They had their baptism in the Referendum itself on October 1, 2017, opening polling stations, self-managing an election…They were the ones who called the general strike on November 8 and by now have great experience of blocking motorways, railways, etc. 
‘Since then between 250 and 300 CDR organisations have become a collective of the associative life of each town and city’.. Obviously the CDRs are statist, however they are very varied and we estimate there are anarchists in at least 25% of them.
ARRAN
The CDRs will have the support of the youth organization of the pro-independence left, Arran, and everyone is pointing to the LA FORJA COLLECTIVE , the first to announce its intentions to “paralyze the territory” with roadblocks and train tracks.
09.12.2018 17:32 Coordinated action of the CDRs to force open motorway toll gates in different parts of the country during the long weekend return home..
Currently the gates are blocked open on the AP-7 the main North South Motorway around Hospitalet de l’Infant (Baix Camp), Girona, Martorell and La Roca.. Instead of huge queues the cars flowed through , beeping with joy.The tolls of the tunnels of Vallvidrera and Manresa (C-16), and the AP-2 of Soses (Segrià) have also been opened.The CDR Catalunya points directly to Abertis and the IBEX35, which says tolls only serve to pay for their ‘vices’. In addition, they add that ‘the Catalan freeways are more than amortized’. In other parts of Spain the state pays for the motorways, toll free.
Student strikes
Universitats per la República has called for a stoppage of classes between 10 am and 2 pm to “show rejection to those who threaten to re-apply the 155 (Direct Rule From Madrid) and do not respect the right to self-determination.”
They have announced it through a press release signed by the platform’s spokesperson, Núria Nieto, who has criticized the celebration of the Council of Ministers in Barcelona “and on that date it is clearly a provocation”. Another spokesperson, Núria Marín, added that “we must show that students are the vanguard of the struggle to guarantee civil and political rights.”

Llotja de Mar where the polemic Council of Ministers is due to take place. Edificio de la Llotja de Mar, sede de la Cámara de Barcelona. /
See also: Defense Committees in the Catalan Uprising: anarchist style People Power can Win
La ANC organiza una marcha lenta de vehículos hasta Barcelona el 21-D
Òmnium convoca un “consejo popular de ministros” con organizaciones de la sociedad civil
El soberanismo mantiene los contactos a puerta cerrada para trazar una acción unitaria



