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SPAIN
Police break up a picket line in Granada.At midnight, the Catalan public broadcaster Televisió de Catalunya (TVC) in Spain, stopped broadcasting and announced they were joining the #14N strike. Eighty-five percent of the workers in Catalonia are striking today and 80 percent of workers in the rest of Spain are joining them. The earliest reports of protests came at midnight in Madrid, Barcelona and other Spanish cities, where thousands of strikers were blocking roads and occupying universities.Dan Hancox, the author of Utopia and the Valley of Tears, reports from Madrid:“The fascist group Nudo Patriota Espanol decided it would be terribly funny to pun on 'huelga general' and swap the 'huelga' (which means 'strike') for vuelva (which means 'return') – making the imperative RETURN GENERAL. General Franco. Come back, o Fascist dictator. Obviously, they got stickered.”
Striking workers in Zaragoza were intimidating scabs who were breaing the picket lines, though pretty sure poking a lorry with a stick wasn't going to make him change his mind.
In Malaga, non-striking workers used pepper spray to disperse a picket line, shooting it through a fire-extinguisher.The bazooka miners of Asturia were out again, as they took part in a solidarity action by blocking the main highways with flaming barricades.The largest protests have been taking place in Madrid, where police have been using rubber bullets on the crowds and arresting demonstrators. At the time of writing, the total number of arrests across Spain had reached 82.
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FRANCE
This is the French Indignés inspiration video for the protest. We’ll show you pics from the actual protest tomorrow.
ITALY
In Ancona, the vibe has been less "eat the rich" and more tweaking the nose of the powerful, with protesters having a fiesta while egging and paint bombing a bank:
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Back in Milan, protesters formed a book bloc as they approached the police lines blocking their path, before charging the police head-on, Braveheart-style.
Meanwhile there were clashes in Rome. And they weren't solely your usual clashes between left-wing students and police, the far-right Blocco Studentesco, the student wing of casa Pound, got involved too.
