https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Tens of thousands of Spaniards rallied across the country on Saturday to demand better pensions as unions accused the government of seeking to privatise retirement benefits. https://www.thelocal.es/20180318/spaniards-rally-for-better-pensions Sun, 18 Mar 2018 05:11:06 +0100 spaniards-rally-for-better-pensions Several thousand demonstrators including Pep Guardiola, the revered former manager of the city's football club, rallied in Barcelona Sunday to support the Catalonia independence referendum called for October 1st. https://www.thelocal.es/20170611/thousands-rally-in-barcelona-for-catalan-independence-vote Sun, 11 Jun 2017 17:59:26 +0200 thousands-rally-in-barcelona-for-catalan-independence-vote The race for the leadership of Spain's main opposition Socialists heated up Sunday as the president of the southern Andalusia region launched her bid to head the deeply-divided party. https://www.thelocal.es/20170326/race-to-lead-spains-socialists-heats-up Sun, 26 Mar 2017 20:23:04 +0200 race-to-lead-spains-socialists-heats-up Scores of blind and partially-sighted people got behind the wheel Thursday and sped around a former Formula One racetrack in what organisers said was the first such rally in Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20150717/blind-drivers-get-behind-wheel-in-race Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:49:53 +0200 blind-drivers-get-behind-wheel-in-race Not just young radicals: Spaniards of all ages and backgrounds came out in their thousands to support a left-wing political party currently making waves in Spain. The Local caught up with some of them to find out why they are such big fans of Podemos. https://www.thelocal.es/20150202/young-and-old-rich-and-poor-join-left-wing-march Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:27:00 +0100 young-and-old-rich-and-poor-join-left-wing-march Less than a week after the victory of its hard-left ally Syriza in Greece, Spain's Podemos party launched an election-heavy year by assembling more than 100,000 supporters for a rally in Madrid. https://www.thelocal.es/20150202/hard-left-podemos-rises-with-stark-portrait-of-divided-spain Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:06:00 +0100 hard-left-podemos-rises-with-stark-portrait-of-divided-spain At least 100,000 people poured into the streets of Madrid on Saturday in a huge show of support for Spain's new anti-austerity party Podemos, riding a wave of popularity after the election success of its Greek hard-left ally Syriza. https://www.thelocal.es/20150131/thousands-to-join-podemos Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:38:00 +0100 thousands-to-join-podemos