The jailing of Catalan nationalists: Spanish government builds a police state
The jailing of Catalan nationalists: Spanish government builds a police state
" By blaming protesters rather than Spanish police for the crackdown in Catalonia, the Supreme Court ruling hands the state a weapon to eviscerate fundamental democratic rights. If its grotesque and reactionary argument were to become accepted, police would need only break a nightstick over the head of a striker on a picket line, or a student occupying a university, to declare them guilty of violent rebellion against the state and hand them long prison sentences. Constitutionally protected rights to strike and to protest would be a dead letter."
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/17/pers-o17.html
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