Pro-Palestinian protesters camped at Plaça de Drassanes, outside the World Trade Center in Barcelona, announced on Sunday night they’re lifting the protest to “focus” their efforts on the 15 October general strike “that stops everything”. In a statement, the Palestine Camp, which made this decision after an assembly with 200 people, called for organising in the coming weeks at workplaces, universities, neighbourhoods and unions.
“A strike isn’t just called or announced: we need to organise it,” they stated. On the other hand, they congratulated themselves that these days they’ve already “disrupted the normal activity of the port, the city and companies doing business with the genocide”. Pro-Palestine activists started the camp last Thursday afternoon after Israel’s assault on the Flotilla. They set up in the square outside the World Trade Center after demonstrating through the city centre. They did so indefinitely, but this Sunday they approved lifting it to concentrate their efforts on the general strike on 15 October.
The announcement came on Sunday coinciding with the arrival of the first group of Flotilla activists deported from Israel to Madrid airport. “These days have already disrupted the normal activity of the port, the city and companies doing business with the genocide. But amongst workers, students and the country as a whole, an idea is spreading strongly: we must stop everything, we must block everything,” they indicated in a statement, denouncing that these days “the state of Israel has continued killing dozens of people in Gaza, with gunfire, under bombs or from hunger and lack of medicine”.
The camp organisers celebrated that it resulted in “sustained and growing mobilisation that culminated in Saturday’s massive demonstration, with more than 300,000 people filling Barcelona’s streets, whilst the protest replicated around the world”.
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