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Inside the British-organised Extinction Rebellion protest outside Primark on Madrid’s Gran Via for COP25
Wham – we stopped the traffic, made a space and the flash mob hit the street, the samba band thumping
NEVER GONNA GIVE EU UP: Spain political group ‘wants UK back in EU’ even if Brexit happens on October...
“We think Boris Johnson’s deal is a terrible deal and hope for a second referendum"
Thousands of British expats and Spaniards join forces for anti-Brexit protest on Spain-Gibraltar border
“Brexit, it affects Spanish people as much as British people, I just think it's really sad”
WATCH: British expats and Spaniards protest after 3 million fish found dead in Spain’s Mar Menor catastrophe
Local fishermen also wore black, in memory of the fish that perished in the shallow waters
WATCH: Barcelona police throw old lady to ground and punch man in face, while another loses eye in violent...
Shocking footage posted online appears to show police ramming protesters with vehicles, an officer throwing an old woman to the ground, as well as a man already floored being punched in the face by an officer
WATCH: Protests at Barcelona’s airport turn violent cancelling 100 flights after Spain’s Supreme Court jails Catalunya leaders
In total 108 flights were cancelled as Barceclona’s main airport was taken over and at least 56 people were injured, with 10 hospitalised
Residents light fires in homophobic protest at gay cruisers on Spain’s Costa del Sol
The most common form of homophobic protests has been residents setting fires in the woodlands, with the fifth one occurring this week.
Spain’s Supreme Court blocks reburial of General Franco just days before body due to be dug up
The arguments of his family against removing him from the Valley of the Fallen rested on the ‘irreparable’ damage it would cause
Andalucian football players wear shirts printed with racist insults for protest in final game of season
Teammates have, in a tongue-in-cheek way, branded the five-year-old squad ‘the foreigners’
ANOTHER chiringuito in Spain’s Andalucia faces environmental protests just weeks after blue flag losses
Miguel Diaz, the group’s mayoral candidate for Marbella also claimed the blueprints for the beach bar are ‘suspicious’
Climate change activists in Spain joined by those in UK as hundreds arrested
In the UK capital, around 400 activists were arrested, following acts of civil disobedience
Thousands march in Madrid as depopulation rocks rural Spain
REVOLT: Protesters want help them for their dwindling villages MADRID has seen large protests by rural...
FIGHT THE POWER: Olive Press launches campaign to stop network of 352 pylons ‘destroying’ Andalucia’s Lecrin Valley and Alpujarras
Thousands of people are affected and the proposed route, which begins in Conchar in the west and ends at Benahadux in the east, was approved back in 2015
Women across Spain protest on International Women’s Day as political parties clash over feminism
Last year the numbers of women protesting on March 8 in Spain reached 5.3 million, according to unions
Protesters SLAM €1 million relaunch of bullfighting in Marbella as petition reaches 80,000
CRUEL: Protesters are set to take to the streets next week, campaigning against the planned relaunch of bullfighting in Marbella
Judges in Spain let ‘Wolf Pack rapists’ roam free after delaying 9-year sentence for brutal sex attack
FREED: Judges have batted down calls for provisional prison sentences for the convicted 'Wolf Pack' sex attackers THE...
STRIKE: 300 Madrid airport workers walk out until New Year after company refuses them warm clothes for winter
STRIKING: Eulen staff walk out on company over claims they are not protected against cold AROUND 300 Madrid...
Fascist vandals paint Nazi swastikas on cultural centre in northern Spain
"We will continue to be profoundly antifascist and committed to the rights and freedoms"
OUTRAGE as uncle and nephew cleared of rape after drugging woman in back alley sex attack in Spain
An uncle and nephew were only cleared of the more serious offence of sexual assault - Spain's equivalent to rape
WATCH: Topless female protestors in Madrid kicked and punched by Franco supporters
Bare-breasted Femen activists, who had the slogan 'Legal Fascism, National Shame' painted across their chests, stormed Franco remembrance rally
WATCH: Man defaces General Franco’s tomb in Madrid with red paint and is dragged away by security guards
The protest was sparked by growing tension surrounding the planned exhumation of the remains of General Franco from the Valley of the Fallen
BORDER BRAWL: British woman swings at Spanish protestor on Gibraltar border as tensions over police pay flare
A similar march is planned for Malaga on August 25
Stormy seas! Protesters gather to oppose cruise ship arrival in Palma
PROTESTERS gathered as the largest cruise ship in the world, the Symphony of the Seas, arrived in Palma on its maiden voyage. The Royal Caribbean...
EXCLUSIVE PICS: Thousands protest in Malaga demanding dignified pension payouts in Spain
Unions and action groups called on retirees to put pressure on the Spanish government to increase state pension payouts
Nationwide strike set to mark International Women’s day across Spain
SPANISH women are being urged to make a stand and strike, to mark International Women's day on March 8. In a bid to show that...
Thousands of OAPs protest on the streets of Spain calling for pension security
PENSIONERS in their thousands have taken to the streets of Spain to demand decent pensions. Demonstrating across Spain to ask the government to guarantee pensions...
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WATCH: Spanish town blasted over ‘Holocaust’ parade that saw performers dress as Nazis and Jewish prisoners alongside ‘Auschwitz’ float
AS Easter quickly approaches, many local councils are preparing for their region’s carnivals and festivals and cultural boards decide on their individual...
