Category: social revolution

Today 1st Oct makes one year since the Referendum in favour of a Republic despite massive police attacks and nearly 1000 wounded.

Occupation of the lines of the International HighSpeed Train in Girona station. The blockade was later abandoned before the police could attack and the crowds occupied a State building, changing the flag.    

  1st Oct 2018   a few of the many events

rough translations from Catalan   from Kaos with thanks

A Students General strike has been called and schools and Universities will be largely deserted…everyone to the demos!

07:05 Some of these mobilizations are already under way. A hundred members of the North East CDRs have cut off the AVE (High Speed Train) tracks shortly before 7:00 AM with the objective of “stopping the interconnection with France.”

07:36 LAST MINUTE: The protesters concentrated in front of the Santa Caterina market in Barcelona have cut the main Vía Laietana.

07:43 Another hundred people are in front of the Tax Agency in Barcelona, ​​protected by a police cord of the Mossos d’Esquadra. The CDR calls for the resignation of Interior Minister Miquel Buch. Control of the local police has nominally been returned to Catalonia under Bluch who is blamed for the vicious repression of the weekend anti fascist demos in Barcelona.

07:47 A hundred people have cut LL11 road in Lleida to commemorate the first anniversary of the referendum on October 1.

07:50 Towards 06:00 am,  people gathered before the cemetery of Lleida and started a funeral march with an altar with candles to cut one of the entry and exit routes of the capital of El Segrià. Continue reading “Catalonia live updates: multiple Mass Demos, Strikes and Blockades marking 1 year of State Repression”