by Scott Creighton
Friday night in Madrid Spain. Spaniards are protesting the worsening austerity policies of their government. Miners hiked 250 miles to Parliament in order to protest a new 63 percent cut in coal mining subsidies which they say will cost 30,000 Spanish jobs. They were joined on the last leg of the hike by thousands of Spaniards who were showing their support for the miners and protesting a new VAT increase of 3%. They already have a 21% sales tax in Spain and this increase has pushed many over the edge.
Spaniards are calling this the biggest austerity push ever and it seems the powers that be really don’t like the idea of organized labor melding with the young and young at heart, idealistic protesters. So action had to be taken.
The police moved in and used batons and rubber bullets on protesters gathered around Parliament. Not many arrests are reported at this time, but over 40 protesters and some 30 cops have been injured.
Comparisons to the fascist Franco government of 40 years ago have already begun.
Filed under: Neoliberalizing Spain, Protests in Spain, Scott Creighton
Bravo, Spainards! May you fight with honor and valor!
Resist those trying to enslave you!
They get off on what they do, whether they’re in riot gear, taunting the masses and beating on old women, or in uniform, singing while they kill, then pissing on the corpses. This is what stands between the 1%, and the out-gunned rest of the world.
How long it stand is anybody’s guess. Not long would be my guess, once the masses see there’s no peaceful nowhere left to turn.
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