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Spain: anarchist unions call GENERAL STRIKE. Oct31.

Final Update Oct 30th. the General Strike call for tomorrow will go ahead as a ‘Day Of Struggle’ with direct actions in Catalunya, plus pickets, a partial transport strike, and a demo in the evening. This is an alternative and building resistance. It’s also been backed by the CNT anarcho syndicalist union, (which is quite small as it refuses to cooperate with the State.) Of course these anarchist unions also support the Nov 14th South Europe General Strike!

Update Oct 24th.. Finally the ‘majority’ Unions have called a General Strike for Nov 14th. But the CGT are going ahead with theirs anyway.. let’s see if it works!!

(summary translated by The Free). The big sold out Unions have so far failed to back the Anarchist call but are pressured to do so. All the Unions missed the chance to strike on Sept 26th with Euskadi and Greece and link with Occupy Congress..

Unemployment continues to increase in SEPTEMBER

CGT GENERAL STRIKE CALLED for OCTOBER 31

…..More and more workers in the unemployment line, according to just released by the Ministry of Employment and Social Security with the September data in hand. There are 79,645 new people, an increase of 1.72% compared to the end of August, which reached a staggering 4.7 million registered unemployed in INEM offices, while membership in the Social Security descends by 86,174 people….

If to this we add the precarious labor precariousness of basic rights such as education and health-victims of savage cuts, alongside the dismantling and privatization of basic public services, the picture becomes bleak, and should be considered as a real provocation and insult to our dignity….. Continue reading “Spain: anarchist unions call GENERAL STRIKE. Oct31.”

‘Spanish Democracy built over pits of Corpses’

fascist mass murder unpunished — Spanish death pits never investigated as heirs of killers still enjoy stolen wealth.

Campaign for Truth Commision begins

Thousands of people applauded Baltasar Garzon in the Puerta del Sol in an event organized to demand a Truth Commission which drew historical memory associations, relatives of victims, politicians, trade unionists, lawyers and people who wanted to vindicate the need not to forget the history of recovering hundreds of thousands of reprisals by the Franco regime that still remain missing in pits and ditches throughout the national territory. Continue reading “‘Spanish Democracy built over pits of Corpses’”

Occupy Congress (Spain) on Tuesday 25 Sept

UPDATE Brutal Cops attack Occupy Congress

https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/brutal-cops-attack-occupy-congress-new-demo-7pm/

¡On 25 de septiember lets surround Congress! ¡El 25 de septiembre el pueblo será soberano!

Even on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/355184007883632/

FanPage: https://www.facebook.com/OcupaElCongreso

Grupo de debate: https://www.facebook.com/groups/318713574883730/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ocupaelcongreso

Vídeo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBIBN

The Government, bosses, police and fascist right have been making every kind of threats, slanders, arrests, lies, provocations, legal charges, etc to stop the Occupy Congress movement for 25 Sept. They are scared shitless of a popular initiative NOT controlled by their tame unions, politicians, or nationalist divisions. Continue reading “Occupy Congress (Spain) on Tuesday 25 Sept”

Debt slaves..lets Smash Capitalism!..

Revolution? Nothing to lose but our debts!

The idea of the “99 percent” managed to do something that no one has done in the United States since the Great Depression: revive the concept of social class as a political issue. What made this possible was a subtle change in the very nature of class power in this country, which, I have come to realize, has everything to do with debt. David Graeber

As a member of the team that came up with the slogan “We Are the 99 Percent,” I can attest that we weren’t thinking of inequality or even simply class but specifically of class power. It’s now clear that the 1 percent are the creditors: those who are able to turn their wealth into political influence and their political influence back into wealth again. The overriding imperative of government policy is to do whatever it takes, using all available tools—fiscal, monetary, political, even military—to keep stock prices from falling. Continue reading “Debt slaves..lets Smash Capitalism!..”

Corrupt Unions control huge Madrid demo

Spanish firemen demo.The Cuts have stripped us naked!' — Spanish firemen demo.The Cuts have stripped us naked!’

Ten enormous marches, up to half a million strong, assembled and proceeded to the center of Madrid, mainly public sector workers and families, affected by the savage cuts, closures, sackings and tax hikes which are getting worse by the day.

The Unions have conspicuously REFUSED to call a new General Strike for 26th Sept when there is a regional one in Euskadi and in Greece as well.

It has been left to the minority anarcho syndicalist CGT union to call a countrywide Strike for 31 October, and call for other groups to join in.

The State is locked into an ‘eat your tail’ spiral where the more money they borrow Continue reading “Corrupt Unions control huge Madrid demo”

Police Kill Anti-Nuke fisherman, Resistance GROWS

A group of fisherfolk staging “jal satyagraha” in the sea, against the Kudankulam nuclear power project at Veerapandianpattinam coast in Tuticorin district on Friday. (Photo: N.Rajesh)

Despite the killing of an anti-nuclear protester by police on Monday, hundreds of protesters forming a human chain stood in sea waters today, for the second day in a row, demanding a halt to preparations for fuel loading into the reactor of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) in Tuticorin district. Continue reading “Police Kill Anti-Nuke fisherman, Resistance GROWS”