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Tag: Spain
Rallies for Suiza 6: “Syndicalism is not a crime!”
Activists sentenced to prison in Spain for campaign against workplace, equating public economic pressure with criminal coercion ~ Cristina Sykes ~ …
Spanish firefighters sound alarm on precarious working conditions
As climate change increases fires’ frequency and magnitude, risks grow due to local authorities’ incompetence ~ Mateo Sgambati ~ The Se…
Continuing the fight: Three anarchists from Spain in the British army, 1939-1945
But what was evident was that many of these veterans felt that Britain had let them down by not going after Franco next.
Fascism advances if not fought: Spanish unions plea
CGT released a statement calling on the working class to strengthen their anti-fascist involvement and publicly reject the activities of ultra-righ…
Spain: Anarchists assemble picket lines for IKEA dispute
The Madrid section of Spain’s long-running CNT-AIT anarchist union is taking on the famous furniture maker in an effort to force bosses to fo…
Spain: Comments on the general election
With the left and right deadlocked, syndicalist union the CGT notes the far-right is no less of a threat for its failure to enter government and wh…
Spain: They evict community spaces to give them away to speculators
Todo Por Hacer rounds up some of the occupied social centres (commonly known as CSOs) in and around Madrid – and the battles these spaces been fi…
Spain: Cops raid and evict Lioness social centre
In a demonstration of repressive policing, Seville cops attacked and destroyed the squatted space on the day it opened for community use – ha…
Interview with the Coordination of Metal Workers (CTM) of Cádiz
At the end of last year metalworkers in the southern Spanish port city went on an immense nine-day pay strike as inflation bit into the value of wa…
Spain: CNT archives attacked
The Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo (FAL) archive and bookshop, a major anarchist institution in Madrid, was attacked with a pickaxe and paint overnight…
Spain: antifascist rapper to serve prison sentence for ‘insulting the crown’
On Sunday 7th February, Spanish police are due to arrest rapper Pablo Hasél.
Spain: striking field workers call for solidarity
On 14th January, the workers of the British company Fresh Tom Export in Almería (South Spain), a vegetable grower and trading company specialising…
Spain: CNT takes on farm exploitation in Andalusia
Covid has presented particular problems for seasonal farm workers this year, and CNT Adra is planning to fight back.
Chilean anarchist on trial for death of fascist in Spain
Chilean anarchist Rodrigo Lanza is facing 20 years in prison for the death of a fascist in Zaragoza, Spain.
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