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4 April 2012
Spain: Huge general strike as government enters deep crisis
Months of protest against the right-wing Spanish government's vicious austerity measures culminated in a massive general strike on 29 March
28 March 2012
Spain: Workers gear up for general strike
The right-wing People's Party prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has provoked a 24-hour general strike on 29 March by Spain's trade unions, by making it easier for employers to sack workers...
7 March 2012
Spain: Thousands in student protests against education cuts
Hundreds of thousands of students took to the streets of Spanish cities on 29 February to protest against the right-wing Popular Party government's swingeing austerity cuts in education...
23 November 2011
Ruling PSOE battered in Spanish general election
Poisoned chalice of dealing with the crisis handed to PP: As widely expected, last week's Spanish general election saw the right-wing Popular Party (PP) win an overall parliamentary majority, although its percentage share of the vote barely rose
Photo Paul Mattsson
19 October 2011
15 October: day of intercontinental resistance
Break the power of the banks and big business: On 15 October, all around the globe, the "enraged", the "indignad@s", the "occupiers of Wall Street", took to the streets to challenge the power of big business...
3 August 2011
Spain:"Throwing a shoe at the system"
"The indignados don't take holidays", commented one newspaper. "Instead they came in their tens of thousands from all over Spain to turn the heat up on an already sweltering capital.
Madrid: Spain’s town squares filled with tens of thousands of indignados (angry people), mainly youth, in protest at the anti-social consensus of both PSOE and the PP , photo Sarah Wrack
25 May 2011
Eyewitness report: Mass youth protests in Spain
Since 15 May, central squares in towns and cities across Spain have been occupied. In the run up to the local and municipal elections which took place on 22 May, the mainly young protesters demanded real democracy
'Thank you for fighting for our future'. Photo by Sarah Wrack
23 May 2011
Spain: this is what democracy looks like!
Members of the CWI in Spain have participated in the Spanish youth movement in eight different cities with a special leaflet calling for unity with the working class and a general strike, for elected democratic committees of workers and young people to prepare such a movement and for a revolutionary socialist policy
Ten million took part in a general strike in Spain 29 September 2010 that shook Spanish capitalism , photo Sarah Wrack
6 October 2010
Spain: workers demonstrate their strength
On 29 September the general strike marked the entrance of the Spanish working class onto the stage of struggle with all its weight and power...
22 September 2010
Spain: class struggle the biggest show in town
Any glance at newspapers or TV news programmes anywhere in the Spanish state in the last days and weeks would leave no-one in doubt as to the change that has taken place in the situation here, writes CWI reporters.
16 June 2010
Spain: Millions of public sector workers strike over brutal cuts
ON 8 June, almost two million public sector workers went on strike in opposition to Spain's PSOE government's austerity programme, which, among other brutal attacks on public spending, social welfare and pensions, involves a 5% across the board pay cut for public sector workers, writes Danny Byrne.
9 June 2010
General strike: A GENERAL strike involving 2.5 million public sector workers hit Spain on 8 June. The trade unions involved in the mass walkout are opposed to the Zapatero government imposing a 5% cut in salaries, starting...
3 March 2010
Spain: Thousands join mass demonstrations
Mass protests took place in Spain last week against the PSOE government´s attacks on the country´s pension system...
10 December 2008
Student struggle in Spain - time of revolt
Student protests against the education reforms in the Declaration of Bologna, part of the 1999 EU agreement, commenced in Spain in May 2008. Johan Rivas and Denise Dudley write.
28 June 2003
KEITH ELLIS looks at Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell.
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