Spanish State: “Panrico and Coca-Cola, the struggle is one

05.03.2014 Since the government and the business owners launched the Labor Reform, thousands of companies have been administering brutal attacks on workers, including steep salary reductions, loss of workers’ gains, thousands of laid-off workers, and the closing of some companies.

The upsurge of young people opens the first cracks in the regime inherited from Franco

08.06.2011

Polemic: Two strategies for the movement in the square

08.06.2011

Spain

Two strategies for the movement in the square

28.05.2011 At the important assemblies taking place in the main cities in Spain there are growing concerns among the youth as to how to continue the struggle.

A fierce blow against Zapatero and his austerity plans

A big workers’ demonstration in the Spanish state

06.10.2010 A general strike, picket lines, and mass marches The working class has said "Enough!". It has shown its strength and is opening the possibility that the situation will make a turn, and we workers will begin to strengthen our ability to struggle against the historic attacks that are being prepared. The day was marked by hundreds of conflicts, that as a whole constitute a step forward in this sense. In this first article we cannot describe all of those struggles, but we can describe those we participated in.

Spanish state

First big workers’ protest against Zapatero’s austerity plan

17.06.2010 On June 8 the first big protest against the austerity measures announced by Zapatero took place. Two and a half million public workers were called to a strike to protest against the 5% cut in their wages, against the freezing of pensions and the elimination of social benefits. This is the beginning of a long struggle to defeat the government of the PSOE [Socialist Party] and the rest of the bosses' parties that are betting on carrying out an historic austerity plan on our shoulders.