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| Military police car taken over by protesters |
Telegraphically: This morning the Spanish state has assaulted the Catalan Government (Generalitat) and arrested 12 people, including many high officers of the elect government. Last minute info indicates that masked police forces have surrounded the offices of the radical left independentist party Popular Unity Lists (CUP). Several separatist parties have abandoned the Spanish Congress as result. The center of Barcelona is full of people in spontaneous demonstration. Protests are being held in other places as well, including here in Bilbao (Basque Country). The only de facto all-Spain opposition party Podemos has called for a conference of mayors and other elect officers tomorrow in Zaragoza (the Spanish nationalist right-wing parties PP and Ciudadanos have not been invited, the Spanish nationalist center-left PSOE has rejected to go but all other forces are going). While we can't say the situation is "revolutionary", it is certainly most anomalous and in many sense "pre-revolutionary", particularly because the Spanish state cannot effectively fight against the peoples, much less with the extremely low level of legitimacy it has after so much corruption, austericide and repression. We cannot exclude at this point that a general strike of political nature could be called, even if the main unions are quite sheeply and definitely unionist.
The situation is definitely critical in any case. Some relevant Twitter hashtags: #ReferèndumCat, #MAMBO.
Hola maju, estas pensando en volver a Electomania?
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No, la verdad. Una vez que tomo decisiones no suelo mirar atrás. Además ya tengo mucha actividad en la vida real, que no me quiero morir sin que cambien mucho las cosas. Para la vida virtual ya tengo Facebook (sí, yo también he caído, pero al menos ahí puedo bloquear a todos los nazis y cuñadanos a gusto).
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