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Direct actions Social control and repression

Riots in Santiago after the arrest and jailing of an independentist militant

On January 8, Galician independentist Hadriám Mosquera was arrested by officers of the Spanish police in a forest close to the town of Ames, where he currently lived. He was immediately transferred to Madrid, where he has entered jail, and has reported tortures and abuse during his detention. The day after, several gatherings were held around Galiza and in the Santiago de Compostela one, riots were reported, with several trash bins being burnt and bank offices attacked. No one was arrested.

Source: galizalivre.org

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Molotov attack against police station in Murcia

According to mass media, the San Andrés police station in the city of Murcia was attacked on the night of December 16 by a group of hoodies who threw molotov cocktails against the building and the police cars parked next to it. One of them was set on fire. No group has yet claimed responsibility.

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Incendiary attack on an office of the national service of (un)employment in Madrid

In the night of Monday, November 19th, an incendiary device was placed at the entrance of an office of the traditional National Institute of Employment (INEM)* in the Madrid neighbourhood of Prosperidad. This location was chosen because it is considered a factory of daily humiliation, disillusion and routine. Because of that thick tedium breathed in that or any other unemployment office. It was chosen because they are killing us, and those left alive are offered the scraps.

Apart from claiming our dignity, this action shows physically our discouragement, our lack of hope, our grudge and our hate that can be found in our eyes and in those of all the other people who travel with us in the subway in the morning.

Indeed, the action was carried out by the intern who goes back home every single day with a feeling of humiliation clouding her eyes, by the worker who spends three times more time with her coworkers than with her partner, by the unemployed who prays for not being called for a job in the whole damn life, by the young mother who does not know how the fuck she will feed her kids if they are kicked off the house where they are living…

The next action can be carried out by you any night.
Fuck them and their jobs.
To spread anger with ink, stones and petrol.

Source: en.contrainfo.espiv.net

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Antifascism Direct actions

Antifascist gathering in Madrid against Greece’s Golden Dawn

On November 18th at 11am in the morning, Nick VH, responsible for External Relations of the Greek nazi party Golden Dawn, will be giving a speech at the Hotel Madrid Centro. Golden Dawn is a nazi party that is completely allowed by police and state to act, as they form part of the Greek political system and have won enough seats in elections to be represented at the Parliament, with all that this implies (total impunity and legitimacy to act in any way as well as political and financial support to develop their campaigns, speeches and actions).

One of its members intends to come to Madrid to give a lecture on his party, and from the Madrid antifascist movement, we launch an antifascist alert and call people to go to face them and get them. We won’t allow them to carry out this act in Madrid, or at least not in a normal way. Let’s make it clear that they are not welcome here.

On November 18 at 11 am in front of the Hotel Madrid Centro (Mauricio Legendre street, 16).

ORGANISE YOURSELF, COME AND SPREAD!
MADRID ANTIFASCIST NOW AND ALWAYS!

source: barcelona.indymedia.org

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Capitalist crisis Direct actions

October 31: general strike in Barcelona

Back in September, CGT announced a general strike for October 31 around the whole Spanish state. Weeks later, yellow unions CCOO and UGT called for another one on November 14 and CGT decided to move its strike to the same day as the main unions. Nonetheless, CGT kept the strike in Barcelona for October 31 (labelling it as “Day of struggle”), where local CNT had also called for a general strike. The impact has been minimum, as expected, but sectors such as metro, taxis or post offices have recorded high numbers of strikers.

Several pickets had been organised during the morning in several neighbourhoods, while CNT had called for a central picket at plaça Catalunya. Along the way, an Apple Store and a Zara were attacked by protesters and shut down.

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PSC office attacked in Barcelona

On October 11 the offices of the catalan branch of the PSOE in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona were attacked with paint and stones by a group of 10 hooded people. Nobody has claimed responsability yet for the attack.

source: mass media

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Capitalist crisis Direct actions

Updates about the students’ strike

We stop today… to build the tomorrow

On October 11, the first university students strike of the school year was held against tuition fee increases taken both by the central and regional goverments. The strike had been called by most of the student unions, especially the left-wing independentists ones, and demonstrations were held all around the state. In Barcelona more than 5.000 people demonstrated despite the rain and massive police presence. In the early hours of the morning, dozens of cops entered the UAB campus outside the city and prevented students from blocking the highway and railroads located next to the university. During the demonstration several buildings such as the stock exchange, the European Union offices in Barcelona and the headquarters of Convergència i Unió party (currently ruling the Catalan goverment) were attacked with paint. An ATM was set on fire and many graffitis were made along the way. 300 people demonstrated in the city of Lleida, with cops assaulting three students at the end of the demonstration and arresting one of them, accusing him of throwing objects against cops.

Demonstrations occured as well in many other cities around the state, such as Valencia, Málaga, Mallorca, Valladolid, Iruñea or Santiago de Compostela. In Bilbo, cops charged against protesters after some of them had broken into the headquarters of the Basque goverment. 90 people were identified. Hundreds of students demonstrated too in the centre of Madrid and boycotted an act by the rector of the Complutense University of Madrid.

Some links with pictures about Barcelona demonstrations [1], [2], [3]

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Capitalist crisis Direct actions

Videos of the 26S general strike in Iruñea

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