They are afraid and they do not hide it. "We are terrified. Because of what happened yesterday and what could happen on October 31st [when there is a new call for protest], on the 11th with the general strike, or on the 29th with the elections." The person speaking is Albert Moya, who, together with his father and his aunt, runs three flower stalls in Plaça de Catalunya that were destroyed yesterday. This Sunday he has reopened, with the windows broken and covered with cardboard. "Let's see what happens tonight, with the Barça - Madrid match, too. Now any spark can make violence break out again," he reflects.

In an increasingly volatile world, international trade is seeking new strategies to secure its routes. Shipping companies have signed new trade agreements to establish optimal port calls, coinciding with the paralysis caused by the war in Gaza in the Suez Canal, the main gateway to the Mediterranean for ships from Asia. This entire reconfiguration of global traffic has impacted the Port of Barcelona's activity in the first half of 2025.

Many of the products found on store shelves or delivered to our homes as packages make long journeys on ships, filling containers to the brim and traveling from one end of the world to the other. Cranes are placed on the ground that look like something out of a science fiction movie, exaggeratedly large and capable of lifting a lot of weight. At the Port of Barcelona, the main container terminal has just opened an expansion that has increased its capacity by 25%.

Last Saturday in Barcelona the police kettled a group of demonstrators in Gràcia neighbourhood and then charged at them. Subsequently the police considered this action a "tactical mistake". The fear that the people who were there in the middle were not so strategic. Shouldn't to have left the house. The . The fear the people in the middle felt was not so strategic. Shouldn't have left the house. Catalan minister of Home Affairs maintained that "there was a minimal use of force". In the videos that circulated online force seemed remarkable, but don't mind me, I'm weak. A girl has had her eye gouged out. It is collateral damage although in reality it is frontal and avoidable. It is container that suffer and are quantified and magnified, fully aware that most protesters never burn anything. Not for lack of motives. Out of strategic fear. And out of astounding ignorance, some shopkeepers speak of "the Night of Broken Glass", when in reality the only thing that happened was that a few people broke windows at night. You might despair at the first paragraph. But you hang in there. As you always do. As we are doing. Even if resilience is admirable on some days and a little scary on others