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The anti-austerity movement in Spain was fundamentally rooted in resistance to Spain's unopposed right-wing government led by the People's Party. The Citizens Security Law (dubbed the "gag law") that had recently been passed, viewed by protestors as a restriction of civil liberties comparable to the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, was ...
Podemos (Spanish:, translated in English as "We Can") [c] is a left-wing [14] [15] [16] to far-left [17] [18] [19] political party in Spain.Founded in January 2014 by the political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión as part of the anti-austerity movement in Spain, [20] [21] the party is currently led by Secretary-general Ione Belarra.
The anti-austerity movement refers to the mobilisation of street protests and grassroots campaigns that has happened across various countries, especially in Europe, since the onset of the worldwide Great Recession. Anti-austerity actions are varied and ongoing, and can be either sporadic and loosely organised or longer-term and tightly ...
The parties forming Spain’s acting government said Tuesday that they will push for a 37½-hour workweek as part of an agreement the coalition partners struck as they try to remain in power ...
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Location of Asturias within Spain. The coal mining industry has played a part in the local economy of the provinces of Asturias and León since the Roman era. [3] The region also has a history of militancy: an uprising in 1934 led by miners took place but was crushed by General Franco; [1] and a miners' strike which began in Asturias in 1962 involved nearly 500,000 workers and was the first ...
MADRID (Reuters) -Spain's anti-trust watchdog fined the online reservation group Booking.com 413.2 million euros ($448 million) for abusing its dominant market position in the country for the last ...
By 2018, there were 78 PAH groups in Catalonia and 245 in total in Spain. [12]: 187 The PAH used a variety of tactics to support tenants under threat of eviction, including street protests against banks and legal challenges. Between 2009 and 2017, it prevented 2045 evictions and rehoused over 2500 people by squatting properties owned by banks.