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Picture of the DayBarcelona, Spain. A protester adds to a barricade of burning tires during demonstrations and a general strike. News of a renewed Spanish recession has been met with further austerity measures and big spending cuts – policies to which the government is tightly cleaving. This is the first general strike in the three months since PM Mariano Rajoy took office.

Read: An article in The Nation on the radicalism of the Spanish student movement by Zoë Schlanger.

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“They’ve opened up the possibility of collective disobedience for themselves, for their purposes,” Ramírez said. “That’s not nothing.”