A high-altitude isolated depression that hit Spain, especially the province of Valencia, at the end of October turned into the deadliest climate-related catastrophe in Spain this century, writes Miguel Urban Crespo.
Miguel Urban Crespo
Huge strikes and protests are rocking France, with the threat of greater shocks to come as a hated labour law 鈥渃ounter-reform鈥 is debated in the French Senate.
The Socialist Party government is trying to force through the so-called El Khomri law, which would eliminate long-held workers鈥 protections. But the law has stirred huge resistance, expressed in different forms, from the occupation of public squares called the 鈥淣uit Debout鈥 (Up All Night) to a revival of mass working class action, including general strikes.