Overview

• Thousands of students in Catalonia joined a second strike called by CGT and SEPC, with a midday rally at Barcelona’s Plaça Universitat.
• Access blockades at UAB, UB and UPC disrupted activity, leading to suspended classes at several UB faculties and at UPC’s ETSEIB engineering school.
• Students also cut roads including the AP‑7 near Sant Celoni and the C‑25 at Manresa during morning actions.
• Barcelona’s metro paused for two minutes at noon in a worker‑led show of solidarity, according to Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona.
• In Barcelona, protesters are consolidating an encampment near the World Trade Center that participants say will remain until October 15, when CCOO and UGT have called workplace stoppages.