You can see videos of cops attacking kids in the 70,000 strong demo in Barcelona here..Plus many more on You Tube from all over Spain as the Spring 2012 Youth Rebellion takes off !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0wfn0NIz0Kw
The workers are demanding a national minimum wage, permanent jobs for contract labourers, social security for informal labourers, pensions for all workers, intervention by the government to stop the rising costs of living, and to end the sell off of publicly owned companies amongst other demands.http://libcom.org/blog/world%E2%80%99s-biggest-ever-strike-
Transport, postal services and banking have all been hit by the strike which involves around a dozen unions, with a ‘complete shutdown’ of banking in Mumbai being reported. Police have been deployed to try to prevent ‘unlawful’ picketing, with 100 arrests made this morning for obstructing traffic.
A day-long nation-wide strike staged by 11 trade unions may have been followed by up to 100 million workers. Key sectors like banking and transport took a hit in various parts of the country.
Rajinder Khurana, a 36-year-old bank clerk working in the government-owned State Bank of India in the capital was up early on Tuesday. The previous night he and his colleagues had prepared elaborate placards demanding an amendment to the Minimum Wages Act and an increase in gratuity payout.
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Khurana was among the hundreds of employees who picketed the bank’s entrance dissuading employees from coming into office even as a tight police cordon ringed the bank premises. All clerical staff and non-supervisory staff were on strike, while officers reported for duty.
Many taxi drivers suspended their services to participate in the protests
“We have come together to voice our protest against price rise, breach of labour rights and the government’s free market policies like disinvestment in public sector companies,” Khurana told Deutsche Welle.
Millions of others like Khurana joined the call for tighter labor laws and a minimum wage in a strike that crippled banking services across the country and affected different modes of public transport. A large number of rickshaw and taxi drivers kept their vehicles off the roads in many parts of the country to take part in the protest. “I had to pay double the fare to take a rickshaw as most of the rickshaw drivers were on strike. They charged exorbitant rates,” exclaimed Swati Chandan, a daily commuter. Read more here.. with thanks Author: Murali Krishnan http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15774001,00.html?maca=en-aa-news-862-rdf
BRITISH authorities moved in to evict the Occupy London tent city outside St Paul’s Cathedral over Monday night.
There were reports of people being arrested and dragged off by riot police, shouting: “Long live #occupy !”
Christian protesters praying on the steps of the cathedral were apparently violently pulled away and thrown to the ground – at the request of the church authorities.
Police blocked off the area to stop supporters getting to the scene to express their solidarity.
The move was expected by activists, following the end of legal attempts to gain extra time on the site.
Corporate media are, inevitably, keen to represent the physical removal of the camp as a defeat for the movement against neoliberalism.
And Occupylsx itself declared on Tuesday morning: “Globalspring is coming this may. Still united for #globalchange and #globaldemocracy. This is just the beginning.”
Financed by capitalist slush funds the rightwing press has fanned a wave of race hate against southern Europeans, blaming our lazy love of fiesta for their economic woes.
BUT OECD FIGURES PROVE THAT SPANISH, PORTUGUESE, ITALIAN AND GREEK WORKERS DO LONGER HOURS FOR LESS PAY, WORK IS MORE PRECARIOUS, HARDER WITH LESS MECANIZATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT IS HIGHER.The eurozone crisis has sown divisions in the European family, and Greece in particular has often been singled out for criticism. Has Greece been living beyond its means? Are Greeks lazy? On this second point, the statistics tell a surprising story.
This week Greece is facing more spending cuts after agreeing to a deal of 130bn euros (£110bn, $175bn) to help it avoid bankruptcy.
But the statistics suggest the country has not lost its way due to laziness. If you look at the 
average annual hours worked by each worker, the Greeks seem very hard-working.
Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show that the average Greek worker toils away for 2,017 hours per year which is more than any other European country.
Out of the 34 members of the OECD, that is just two places behind the board leaders, South Korea.
On the other hand, the average German worker – normally thought of as the very epitome of industriousness – only manages 1,408 hours a year. source: BBC NEWS
Next solidarity protest on Saturday 25 February at the Greek Embassy
Φεβρουαρίου 19, 2012
After the success of the day of action on 18/2 in London and around Europe, we decided to continue our actions of solidarity! 13:00 at the Greek embassy, at 1A Holland Park W11 3TP. Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/396894816993798/ Με επισήμανση:25 february greek embassy, 25 february protest london greek embassy, greek demostration london, greek demostration london 25/02, solidarity protest greek embassy Posted in: Δράσεις
GREEK anarchists have called for international solidarity efforts, as they endure a new brutal wave of repression from the state and its neo-fascists 
guard-dogs.
Says a statement posted on From the Greek Streets: “Greece is at a critical turning point, and many critical changes are taking place in a societal as well as a political and economic level.
“The disintegration and dissolution of the dominant – until recently – model of power and exploitation is more than evident, so it defines what is commonly called ‘crisis.’
“What we are experiencing now is the total failure of a system that is unable to secure any longer the social consensus, thereby is engaged in a frontal attack that is unconditional and with no pretext.
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We’ve counted some 140 ”Occupied Social Centers” the Spanish state. (en castellano abajo)”In every neighborhood an occupied social center… The movement is no longer so defensive, enclosed in a comfortable (and sometimes thankless) ghetto, and has begun to expand. It’s a good time to welcome without fear new people from other political traditions, and above all, people never politicized.”
In ‘A las Barricadas’ magazine we published a map some months ago of social centers (squats or not), cultural associations, think tanks, foundations, social libraries, bookstores and other places of anti-authoritarian character.The very variety of the Iberian anarchism today, makes it difficult to categorize or locate many spaces.
One of the results of the huge new assembly based movement Continue reading “anarchism in Occupied Social Centers.. anarkismo el los CSO”
Miles de personas, principalmente jóvenes, se manifiestan desde las 15.30 horas de este martes frente a la estación del Norte en la calle Xàtiva de Valencia tras unirse una concentración que se realizaba en las puertas del Instituto Lluís Vives.Entre las proclamas más escuchadas de los participantes, muchos de ellos exhibiendo sus libros en señal de protesta, se ha podido oír la petición de la dimisión de la delegada del Gobierno, Paula Sánchez de León, por la actuación policial y para pedir la libertad de los estudiantes detenidos con las frases ‘Detinguts llibertat, delegada dimissió’ (Estudiantes detenidos libertad, delegada dimisión).
Among the most heard proclamations of the participants, many of them displaying their books in protest, it was possible to hear the call for the resignation of the government delegate, Paula Sánchez de León, policing and to demand the release of students detained by the phrases ‘Detinguts llibertat, delegate dimissió’ (Students arrested freedom, delegated resignation).
Desde las 15.30 horas la calle permanece cortada, con escasa presencia policial, aunque un helicóptero de la Policía 
Nacional sobrevuela constantemente la zona. De hecho, es la Policía Local la que mantiene cerrada la calle Xàtiva a la circulación.
From 15.30 hours the street is cut, with little police presence, although a National Police helicopter flies over the area constantly. In fact, the local police is keeping the street closed to traffic Xativa.
A las 14.00 horas han comenzado a concentrarse varios cientos de personas frente a las puertas del cercano Instituto Lluís Vives. Media hora más tarde, los asistentes han comenzado a cortar la calle Marqués de Sotelo frente al centro, pidiendo la liberación de los jóvenes detenidos en las protestas de ayer y la dimisión de Sánchez de León. Algunos de los concentrados portaban libros en las manos que alzaban como señal de protesta.
At 14.00 hours have begun to focus several hundred people outside the gates of the nearby Lluís Vives Institute. Half an hour later, participants have begun to cut the Calle Marques de Sotelo front and center, demanding the release of youths arrested in yesterday’s protests and the resignation of Sánchez de León. Some of the books carrying concentrated in the hands raised in protest.
Hasta allí ha desembocado la manifestación que ha salido de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia sobre las 15.00 horas, donde ayer se reunieron unos 400 estudiantes tras los incidentes de todo el día. En esta marcha, unos 1.000 participantes se han dirigido por la calzada de la avenida Blasco Ibáñez al centro mientras coreaban cánticos en los que pedían la dimisión de la delegada del Gobierno y criticaban la actuación policial de los últimos días.
There has led the rally that has left the School of Geography and History of 15.00, which met yesterday some 400 students following the events of the day. In this way, some 1,000 participants have gone on the road of Avenida Blasco Ibáñez center chanted hymns in calling for the resignation of the government delegate and criticized the police action in recent days.
Los participantes han coreado lemas como: ‘Menos policía y más educación’; ¡Que valents detenen als xiquets’ (Qué valientes, detienen a los niños’) y ‘Éstas son nuestras armas’, que han gritado mientras alzaban sus libros en la mano.
Participants chanted slogans like, “Less police and education ‘; That valents detenen Xiquets als’ (How brave, stop children’) and ‘These are our weapons’ that have screamed lifting up his books in hand .
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