The standoff between teachers and the government of Salvador Illa saw its first street protest on Monday, marking the start of a strike that It will last throughout the week in various parts of the country. The rejection of the agreement—deemed "insufficient" by the Ustec union—between the Department of Education and the CCOO and UGT unions to improve working conditions for staff and the situation in classrooms has resulted in road blockades on access routes to Barcelona early this morning and a demonstration by thousands of teachers who flooded Plaça Sant Jaume in the Catalan capital.

After another chaotic morning on the commuter rail network, with Two new failures at the Adif control center The CUP has presented this Tuesday that they have stopped all trains during rush hour. a free online video game under the name Adventurers on the train. The game offers an "ironic and critical look" at the operation of the commuter rail service in Catalonia, in which players must drive a train with the goal of reaching their destination without delays. "Train your patience," the CUP members suggest.

Iran has entered its fifteenth day of protests with the streets still ablaze and communications virtually cut off. Since Friday, the country has been under a digital blackout that blocks internet access and even phone calls and SMS messages. However, videos from cities like Tehran, Mashhad, Tabriz, and Qom, which managed to circumvent censorship, show crowds returning every night, burning cars, and massively deployed security forces.

Catalan farmers will continue their road blockades across the country, they announced on Friday, hours after the 27 member states of the European Union approved the free trade agreement with Mercosur (the South American bloc), against which they had begun their protests in Catalonia. The farmers have accused the Catalan government of having "sold them out," while the Minister of Agriculture, Òscar Ordeig, defended the trade agreement, asserting that "Catalonia is the biggest winner." "We have a 105% agri-food trade surplus, which we want to maintain and expand," Ordeig stated regarding the Catalan primary sector. In this regard, he emphasized that, in an international context where "there are countries in the world that are isolating themselves and isolating us," it is necessary to "seek new trading partners." The regional minister met this Friday in Reus with representatives of the farmers who are blocking access to the port of Tarragona and asked them to act responsibly so as not to disrupt supplies.

Around 350 tractors blocked the C-25 highway (the Eix Transversal) on Monday morning to protest the overpopulation of wildlife in Catalonia, in a demonstration organized by the main agricultural organizations in the region. The mobilization, which began at 9 a.m., brought farmers to the streets to demand, above all, "control of overpopulations of game animals"—especially wild boar, rabbits, roe deer, and red deer—and a "review" of the Livestock Health Service. The march was supported by Unió de Pagesos, Revolta Pagesa, Asaja, and the Plataforma Pagesos o Conejos (Farmers or Rabbits Platform).

France is experiencing a day of social mobilizations this Wednesday to protest the cuts intended to be implemented by the government that fell on Monday. Although this Tuesday the president Macron appointed a new prime minister, the protest has continued. With the slogan "Let's block everything," the movement that called for the mobilization—which emerged on social media and is linked to left-wing social movements—wanted to block the country and called on citizens to stay home: neither go to work, nor go shopping, nor take their children to school. Finally, there have been numerous clashes between police and protesters in different parts of France, although the mobilization's turnout is low and the country has not come to a standstill.

On November 1, 2024, the canopy of the recently renovated Novi Sad train station collapsed, killing 15 people. The renovation work had been opaquely awarded to a consortium of Chinese companies. The tragic accident sparked a protest movement, first in Novi Sad and then throughout Serbia, denouncing widespread corruption, media censorship, the concentration of power, the influence of Russia and Chinese capital, and the repression of dissent. It's no joke: in December, a demonstration as large as those that precipitated Milosevic's downfall took place in Belgrade, and on Saturday, it was the largest in the country's history.

On November 1, 2024, the canopy of the recently renovated Novi Sad train station collapsed, killing 15 people. The renovation work had been opaquely awarded to a consortium of Chinese companies. The tragic accident sparked a protest movement, first in Novi Sad and then throughout Serbia, denouncing widespread corruption, media censorship, the concentration of power, the influence of Russia and Chinese capital, and the repression of dissent. It's no joke: in December, a demonstration as large as those that precipitated Milosevic's downfall took place in Belgrade, and on Saturday, it was the largest in the country's history.

The eviction of an imam and his family has inflamed the migrant community of Salt, which has long denounced housing racism and difficulties in accessing housing. The protests began Monday night spontaneously, without any prior communication or any organizing entity, and continued Tuesday night, in a second day of altercations and clashes that ended with at least six arrests.

Girona's Appeal Court has rejected the public prosecutor's appeal in the case of the 49 Tsunami Democràtic activists accused of cutting off AP-7 motorway in Salt in November 2019, who have been cleared of charges. However, three more people are still being investigated over the protest that cut traffic on the motorway and ended with riots in Salt, as part of the protests against the sentencing of the leaders of the Catalan Independence bid.

Two years in prison, which would be replaced by deportation and an 8-year ban on re-entering the country: this is the sentence the Public Prosecutor's Office is seeking for Gina, a 27-year-old CUP and Endavant militant, for allegedly moving two rubbish containers to build a barricade in the autumn 2019 riots, protesting against the sentencing of pro-independence leaders. The prosecution has made this request because Gina, who has been living in Barcelona for three years, was born in England and does not have Spanish nationality, although she has lived all her life in Benidoleig (Marina Alta, Alicante), where her family moved when she was only 6 years old.

Burmese youths fighting against the military coup d'état are the latest to join a pan-Asian movement for democracy that has sprung up on the Internet: the Milk Tea Alliance. With the hashtag #MilkTeaAlliance they post on Twitter videos of demonstrations in Burma, reports of arrests or disappearances, calls for rallies, sentences against activists and many messages of solidarity. Social networks have become a great tool for the struggle of young people protesting in Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia and now also in Burma. With this hashtag, which emerged a year ago, they share information, advice and create a community, in a movement that brings together different mobilisations but whose common goal is the defense of freedom and democracy.

"How does it feel to fill empty stomachs with the cold of a rifle?" wrote Laura Sofia, a journalism student, in red on black on her banner. "In this country, to eat we have more bullets than food", she justifies. Recently Noticias Caracol leaked the Colombian government's intention to buy 24 military planes for 4.5 billion dollars, a third of what the tax reform that triggered the National Strike on 28 April was intended to raise.

On the streets of Dakar, the capital of Senegal, it is easy to find these days French supermarket chain Auchan's shop windows broken. It is not only in Dakar, in fact: you can also find it in cities like Mbour, about 80 kilometres south of the capital; or in Thies, 70 kilometers east. And it's not just Auchan supermarkets: it's also mobile phone company Orange's shops, or clothing stores linked to the Zara brand, or television and newspaper buildings close to the government, which were set on fire. These are the scars of the of the unprecedented wave of protests that Senegal experienced in early March, which according to the opposition ended with the death of 13 demonstratos.

Since the military coup, Myanmar has seen a month of daily mass demonstrations and fears have disappeared. For a week now, the military has been shooting to kill, but the Burmese continue to defy them in the streets and demand the return of the government of the detained Aung San Suu Kyi. The vast majority of demonstrators are young university students, between 19 and 25 years old, but there are also teachers, doctors, public workers, activists and even gangs. ARA was able to speak to three of them.

"The images are hard and we do not like them, it could have been done better. But it was the worst night of looting and riots". These are the words of Pere Ferrer, general director of the Catalan police - known as the Mossos d'Esquadra - on the police operation that on Saturday, the fifth night of riots in the protests over Pablo Hasél, ended up kettling a group of demonstrators in Carrer Gran de Gràcia in Barcelona, an action that has already generated criticism from Irídia, an organisation which defends of human rights. Ferrer said that they are now analysing the operation, which "left room for improvement", but has claimed that the protesters had "a way out at all times", although the images show simultaneous charges from one end and the other of the demonstration and protestors not knowing where to flee.

A thousand people participated yesterday in the sixth night of protests against the arrest of Pablo Hasél, which, unlike the previous night, was much less tense and saw fewer disturbances. As curfew started, most demonstrators retreated. In the atmosphere there was a feeling that the punishment of the rapper was "the straw that broke the camel's back" of the frustration of a generation marked by unemployment, precariousness and lack of prospects. Still hungover from the destruction on Passeig de Gràcia, the protestors marched quite calmly through the stretch from Sants to the centre, although once again police charged and protestors threw objects. Yesterday at least 8 arrests were made.

The hard police charges, the looting of shops and the burned containers has spread like a stain through the center of Barcelona again this Saturday in the fifth day of protests, the most multitudinous with more than 6,000 demonstrators, according to municipal sources. There were also protests in Tarragona, Lleida, Girona, Mataró and Sabadell. The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested 34 people in total for acts related to public disorder and acts of looting, 31 of them in Barcelona.

There have now been four nights of protests against the imprisonment of Pablo Hasél, a rapper only known in minority circles until the Public Prosecutor's Office accused him of glorifying terrorism and his name was associated with freedom of expression. The demonstrations were called through Telegram channels and other social networks, which gives a clue that the attendees are mostly young people. "Very young", insist sources from the Mossos d'Esquadra, who explain that there are some who were already under surveillance and others who are new to these scenarios.

After four days of riots at the end of the demonstrations in support of Pablo Hasél, Ada Colau has made this Saturday a call for calm in statements to the media and has ensured that, despite understanding that "there are reasons for social unrest", attacks on businesses or urban material "are not a solution". For this afternoon another protest is expected, which could be the largest of those that have occurred up until now, and the Mossos are on alert to prevent a repeat of the disorders of previous nights.