Forty-one Spanish Civil Guard raids on Catalan government-related buildings and private homes on September 20 led to the arrest of 13 high-level Catalan government officials and harvested a lot of “suspect material” for the prosecutors charged with stopping Catalonia’s October 1 independence referendum. However, the raid have provoked a mass revolt in response.The haul … [Read more...] about Catalonia: Mass resistance greets Spanish state coups (Dick Nichols 23/9/2017 Green Left Weekly )