General strike and protests to disrupt Catalunya this week
A general strike is planned for Wednesday 8 November in Catalunya following the imprisonment of several ex-ministers of the Catalan government and two leaders of pro-independence organisations. The Assemblea Nacional Catalana, whose chairman Jordi Sanchez is currently in prison, is calling for a national ’stoppage’ (‘aturada’) on Wednesday 8 November. Catalunya’s fifth-largest union, Intersindical-CSC, is…