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, by SYMEONIDES Nikos
One year after the imposition of the Memorandum and the antilabor and antisocial measures it brought in its wake, the situation of the Greek economy, even under capitalist criteria, did not only not improve but instead significantly worsened. Salaries decreased, provoking a generalized crisis in (…)
, by ROBINSON Andy
Madrid’s iconic central square, La Puerta del Sol, was the site of a strange convergence of the cyber age and the Middle Ages during the first days of what would soon be labeled (in English) “the Spanish revolution.” As the Madrid police prepared to eject the first “indignados“—a hundred or so (…)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos
Two weeks after it started the Greek movement of ‘outraged’ people has the main squares in all cities overflowing with crowds that shout their anger, and makes the Papandreou government and its local and international supporters tremble. It is now more than just a protest movement or even a (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
A European car workers’ conference, held in Amsterdam on 28-29 May, 2011, brought together activists from Poland, Italy, Spain, France, Sweden, Russia and the United States, working in the following enterprises: FIAT Italy and Poland, Ford France and Spain, Opel Poland, Renault France and Spain, (…)
, par PELLETIER Robert
On Saturday and Sunday May 27-28, 2011, about thirty trade-union and political activists from the car industry, coming from the Spanish State, the United States, France, Italy, Poland, Russia and Sweden, met on the initiative of the “August 80” Free Trade Union of Poland at the International (…)
This is the introductory report presented by Jean-Claude Vessillier (an activist in the NPA and a former Renault worker) at the begining of the European Conference of Workers in the Car Industry, held at the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam on May 28-29, 2011. We (…)
, by HOFFMAN Fritz, ITTERMANN Ulrich, SCHUMANN Birgit
This is a message of solidarity sent by participants in the International Council of Car Workers (CITA) to the European Conference of Workers in the Car Industry, held at the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam on May 28-29, 2011. We have also published on ESSF (…)
, by BORON Atilio A.
Perhaps it’s one of history’s surprises that the popular uprising surging through Spain today (and which is beginning to reverberate throughout the rest of Europe) was sparked on the 140th anniversary of the Paris Commune, a heroic moment in which the fundamental demand was also that of (…)
, by Barcelona Camp
Dear friends of the world,
Here a message from the International Commission to help to spread protest worldwide and coordinate internationally:
We want to share with as much people as possible, these unforgettable moments that we are living in #spanishrevolution and want to make this protest (…)
, by Attac Iceland
Attac Iceland welcomes the protests in Madrid and other cities in Spain and sends its wholehearted support. We wish to congratulate the people of Spain on their powerful and widespread protests. Thousands of people have taken to the streets, occupying town squares, erecting tent cities and (…)
, by Barcelona Camp
We have come here voluntarily and by free will. After the 15th of May demonstrations we have decided to remain united and grow in numbers on our fight for dignity. We do not represent any political party and they do not represent us.
We are united on our rage, our discomfort, our precarious (…)
, by ANTENTAS Josep Maria, VIVAS Esther
There is no doubt about it. The wind that has electrified the Arab world in recent months, the spirit of the repeated protests in Greece or the student struggles in Britain and Italy, the mobilizations against Sarkozy in France... has come to the Spanish State.
These are not then days of (…)
, by CAMARGO Raúl, FERNANDEZ Joseba, URBAN CRESPO Miguel
This article, written for the Viento Sur website, locates the movement’s origins not just in the economic crisis and austerity measures of the Zapatero government, but the impasse created by the trade union leaders’ decision to back off from confrontation with the government and agree to the (…)
, by CURTIS Billy
The largest political demonstration in Britain in a decade happened in London on March 26th. Estimate range from 250 000 to 400 000 people taking part in the March for the Alternative organised by the national union federation, the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Coming almost a full year after the (…)
, by Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc / Bloc de Gauche)
On Saturday 12 March 2011, shouting “With casualised jobs there can be no freedom!” 200,000 people gathered in Lisbon and 80, 000 in Porto. The protests marked an extraordinary mobilisation that spread to all 11 other cities across the country, and even to other European countries.
In Lisbon, (…)
, by The Precarious Generation
We, unemployed, “five hundred-eurists” and other underpaid workers, disguised slaves, sub- and term-hired, fake independent workers, intermittent workers, trainees, scholarship holders, working students, students, mothers, fathers and sons of Portugal.
We, who have up to now been complacent (…)
, by SMITH Murray
With the onset of the world economic crisis, the European workers’ movement finds itself in a new phase, one that is replete with dangers and challenges. It is important to underline that we are in fact in a new situation and not just a continuation of the previous period.
There is nothing (…)
, by PELLETIER Robert
The systemic crisis of capitalism puts on the agenda draconian measures which are supposed to make it possible for the capitalists to restore their rate of profit. The counter-reform of pensions in France is just one illustration of this policy. It sums up the economic objectives (to make the (…)
, by BRANCO Luis
November 24th was a great day for the Portuguese workers’ movement in mobilizing against austerity and social cuts. The first general strike organized by both trade unions (CGTP and UGT) since 1988 mobilized more than 3 million workers. The transportation sector gave the example with closed (…)
, by ROMERO BAEZA Miguel
One of the objectives of neoliberalism has been to avoid the “social question” - i.e. conflicts caused by capitalism, based on social injustice and inequality - not only in the political field, but also in terms of civic consciousness, including that of the majority of the working classes.
To (…)
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