1977/09/11: Massive, but peaceful, demonstrations on 1977-09-11 assembled over a million people in the streets of Barcelona to call for the restoration of Catalan autonomy. This was granted less than a month later....
1931/08/02: Once more last week Catalonians went to the polls and voted their desire for independence from Madrid. In the four Catalonian provinces (Barcelona, Lerida, Tarragona, Gerona) 173,000 voted for autonomy, 2,517 voted against it. It was a 70 to 1 victor...
1972/09/12: Nearly 1,000 persons demonstrated briefly in the center of [Barcelona today] to protest the arrest of 67 opponents of the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, police sources said. It was the second such demonstration in two days.
The demonstr...
1932/06/20: Without her industrial Catalonia and her thriving Basque country Spain would be like the U. S. without the North Atlantic seaboard and California. Yet last week the Republican Government at Madrid signed away most of its control over Catalonia which ...
1899/07/21: SPANISH TOWNS DISTURBED.; French Admiral's Presence at Barcelona Occasions a Demonstration -- Riots in Other Places....
