A moral panic has been emerging about the “threat” of mass squatting in Spain, but what’s the reality?
Spain: What is behind the campaign against squatting?
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Syndicalist unions and Covid-era resistance: A CIT roundup
The anarcho-syndicalist international, founded in 2018, looks at workplace struggle in its branches worldwide and calls for the building of new for…
Sex workers are under attack– feminists everywhere need to support us
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Travelling to the COP25 summit in Madrid? Make sure you know your rights
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Anarcho-Syndicalist Workers’ Revolution in Catalonia
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Memorandum of imperialism: 1713, when Europe abandoned the Catalans
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Squatter’s Digest: Grow Heathrow halved, ciao to Asilo
I do have a pretty good excuse for being a little late in writing this month’s column, namely being arrested and remanded for a squatting-rel…
IWW Cymru links with Spanish SAT union for international protest
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Aspects of syndicalism in Spain, Sweden and USA
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Spain: police crack down on anarchists resisting social centre eviction
On Tuesday, two people were arrested in A Coruña in relation to the events that occurred during the eviction of A Insumisa social centre.
Spain: A Insumisa social centre evicted
Last Wednesday, the municipal police have evicted the A Insumisa social centre in Galician city A Coruña.
Spain: temporary end of the anarchist terrorism myth
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Spain: Court Gives 12 Rappers 2 Years Jail Each for Performing a Song
Twelve rappers from the group La Insurgencia were sentenced to two years and a day of jail each for “supporting terrorism” in their lyr…
Catalonia: Calls for solidarity as general strike looms
Anarchists in Catalonia are backing a region-wide general strike for October 3rd and are calling for solidarity actions against the Spanish governm…
CNT warns of riot cops shipped into Barcelona docks
In the febrile atmosphere of Catalonia’s attempted independence referendum and repression from Madrid, activists with the anarchist CNT union…
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