“Spain General Strike: Housing and Wages”

by Ana Vračar in Savage Minds on Substack

@spain@lemmy.world
@spain@pubeurope.com
@spain@lemmy.ml

“Spanish trade unions representing millions of workers have announced a general strike for 11 November. The announcement comes amid nationwide mobilisations for the right to housing and only days after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called for early elections for 29 November”

[..]

“It will be the country’s first general strike in 14 years, excluding the feminist strike of 8 March, 2018”

https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/spain-general-strike

#Press #SocialMedia #Spain #GeneralStrike #Sanchez #Election

“France’s Student Protests: Education Under Austerity”

by Ana Vračar in Savage Minds on Substack

@EducationWeek
@education
@edu_ccl
@france

“Massive school protests are ongoing in France, where students have been mobilising for their right to education—and against the austerity measures undermining it. Roughly 1,800 high schools were forced to shut down on Tuesday, 6 October, as students—supported by trade unions, families, and progressive politicians—took to the streets. According to trade unions, over 450,000 people participated in protests across the country.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/frances-student-protests

#Press #SocialMedia #France #Student #Protest #Police #PoliceViolence #Repression #Austerity #Education

“Washington sanctions regime reaches its breaking point”

by Samuel Geddes in Al Mayadeen English

@iran

“Trump’s escalating sanctions campaign against Iran risks backfiring, weakening US economic leverage and accelerating a global shift away from the dollar-centered financial system”

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/washington-sanctions-regime-reaches-its-breaking-point

#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony

“Spanish government minister blames Israel for Ceuta ‘surge’”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary

@thecanaryuk
@spain
@morocco-marymimouna
@palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@iran
@iraq
@palestinenews

“The Moroccan government is widely considered a US client state and is heavily dependent on Israeli weapons supply. Israel and the US have been accused of coordinating the Ceuta crisis, in which thousands of Moroccans poured into the enclave and at least 67 people have died, to punish Spain. Spain’s resistance to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, its refusal to allow US warplanes to use Spanish bases and airspace to attack Iran and Spain’s condemnation of Israel’s racist attack on footballer Lamine Yamal have infuriated the imperialist regimes”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/08/02/spanish-minister-ceuta-morocco/

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Resistance #EradicateZionism #DecolonizePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #Morocco #Ceuta #Spain

“Spain’s Defiance Sparks a New Front: Ceuta and the Geopolitics of Retaliation”

by Iqbal Jassat in The Palestine Chronicle

@spain
@morocco-marymimouna

@palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@iran
@iraq
@palestinenews

“Clearly by design, the series of events unfolding across the western Mediterranean suggests that Madrid’s foreign policy choices are carrying geopolitical consequences far beyond the diplomatic arena.

[..]

Nations that diverge from prevailing security arrangements often encounter diplomatic, political or economic pressure. History provides numerous examples where leverage has been exercised through trade, finance, intelligence relationships or migration”

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/spains-defiance-sparks-a-new-front-ceuta-and-the-geopolitics-of-retaliation/

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Resistance #EradicateZionism #DecolonizePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #Israel #Spain #Morocco #Cueta #AbrahamAccords #GeoPolitics #MigrationSurge #Retribution

“Europe's Wildfire Crisis: Climate Change and Austerity Fuel a Growing Disaster”

by ANA VRAČAR in Savage Minds on Substack

@europe
@grassrootsforeurope
@EUCommission
@euronews

“Firefighters in France and Spain are working hard to contain devastating wildfires ahead of another heatwave expected to hit parts of Europe starting Tuesday, 28 July. Tens of thousands of hectares of land have been scorched, and over 200,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in France alone. Blazes are also ongoing in Italy, and the seasonal prognosis for the entire northern Mediterranean coast remains alarming”

https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/europes-wildfire-crisis

#Press #SocialMedia #Europe #France #Spain #Wildfire #ClimateCrisis #Austerity

“Execrable Drivel: The US State Department’s Cuba Report”

by Binoy Kampmark in Savage Minds on Substack

@us_news
@cuba
@pardox121
@beforeileave
@renewedresistance

“Given the execrable contents of this untutored report, it is impossible to believe that Cuba is a country increasingly on its knees, its sovereignty and independence more threatened than ever. The ongoing oil blockade, power shortages, lethal disruptions to the health system, sanitation issues and the depleting effects of Hurricane Melissa, have made the survival of the regime shaky. The cloddish semi-literates behind the document, however, want us to forget that Cuba is impoverished. ‘Its material weakness was never the measure of its danger. Its power was always ideological, subversive, and parasitic.’ What power! What potency!”

https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/execrable-drivel

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #US #Cuba #StateDepartment #CubaRepirt #Drivel #Communism #RedScare #Rubio #Imperialism #Trump #Castro #Sanctions #Blockade

“The Dark Side of France”

by Adrian Goldberg in The Byline Times on Substack

@france24
@france
@France3Regions

“Irish journalist Enda O'Doherty talks to the Byline Times podcast about his new book, which traces France's long history of anti-semitism, racism and Islamophobia”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/the-dark-side-of-france

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #France #AntiSemitism #Islamophobia #FarRight

“‘WE WANTED TO SAVE LIVES’, PALESTINE ACTIVISTS TELL COURT”

by John McEvoy in Declassified UK

@palestine
@iran
@iraq
@palestinenews
@uk_politics
@UKLabour

“A jury at Birmingham crown court is deliberating whether four pro-Palestine activists committed criminal damage at an arms factory in Wolverhampton.

Defendants Iain Evans, Hisham Alkhamesi, Frank Sherman, and Hana Yun-Stevens believed the factory, used by arms firm Moog, supplied weaponry to Israel.

They climbed onto the roof in August 2025, smashed equipment and unveiled a banner saying ‘Free Palestine’ while wearing T-shirts with the names of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/we-wanted-to-save-lives-palestine-activists-tell-court/

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Moog #ProPalestine #Weapons #Israel #Jury #Court #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #Genocide #Israel

“the West is everything they told you China was”

by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack

@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@guardian
@Independent
@thetimes
@newyorktimes
@miamiherald
@europe
@EUCommission
@euparliament
@vonderleyen
@uk_politics

“So the next time you hear a Western politician condemn China for silencing dissent, ask them about Hüseyin Doğru. Ask them about the BBC cutting ‘free Palestine’ from a BAFTA speech. Ask them about the pregnant woman body-slammed in Amsterdam and the demonstrators being brutalised in Berlin. Ask them about von der Leyen’s heckler being arrested after she joked that in Russia, he would be arrested. The West is everything they told you China was. The only difference is that the Empire has better public relations”

https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/the-west-is-everything-they-told

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #EU #Surveillance #Censorship #Sanctions #AbuseOfPower #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #Netherlands #Germany #Hypocrisy #Gaslighting #VonDerLeyen #BBC #MSM

“US Project Freedom fell apart after 'backlash' from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait: Report”

by The Cradle News Desk

palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@iran

“Saudi Arabia and Kuwait suspended US access to their military sites in opposition to Washington’s so-called Project Freedom, according to a 6 May report by NBC News.

‘Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after [Saudi Arabia] suspended the US military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation,’ two US officials told the US outlet.”

#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #ProjectFreedom #SaudiArabia #Kuwait

“Spain's China Pivot: Sánchez Charts an Independent EU Course”

by Ana Vračar in Savage Minds on Substack

@spain
@china

“While European Union officials have largely maintained frosty ties with China, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez completed his fourth visit in four years to the Asian country—announcing agreements spanning trade, science, agriculture, food, and other sectors”

https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/spains-china-pivot

#Press #SocialMedia #Spain #China #Sanchez #Pivot #Trade #Science #Agriculture #Food #EU #US #Multipolarity