Spain

20 November election approaches as situation worsens

Build the mass resistance to austerity!

For an alternative to the rotten capitalist consensus!

This week is the 75th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, on 18 July 18. We mark this hugely important event in world history with an article first published on socialistworld.net in […]

Movement an electric shock to political life

Step up the fight for a general strike!

MPs forced to enter Catalan parliament in helicopters

Movement will not be broken by brute force!

What organisation, strategy and politics does the situation demand?

Heroic re-taking of Plaza de Catalunya shows movements continued vitality

Video of police brutally clearing square in Barcelona

Indignados are a new factor in Spanish politics

Elections take place amid youth revolt

“I do not want to be a slave to this system”[to watch a live stream from Puerta del Sol go to SOL TV]

“May 15 movement” holds country-wide demonstrations

Conservative nationalists victory follows defeat of “left” tripartite

’Forced back to work at the point of a Guardia Civil’s gun.’

The aftermath of the general strike on the 29 September

The first step!

Struggles mount in build-up to 29 September general strike

All out on 29 September to defeat the attacks!

General strike beckons…

Unions respond to new austerity measures

Retreat on retirement age – class and social battles loom

Union leaders deaf to demand for general strike

For workers’ unity against the bosses and government!

Overwhelming demand for a general strike to begin the fightback

Bleak future beckons under capitalism

Spanish capitalism in deep crisis

Class battles brewing

Economic crisis and racism backdrop to polls

Only united working class struggle can win national rights

“The wars are yours – the deaths are ours,” read one placard on a demonstration in Madrid in the early hours, last Sunday morning. It summed up the mood of millions throughout Spain just days […]

Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Seville last Saturday in a massive anti-capitalist protest. The government and the police desperately tried to play down the turnout. The local police claimed up to 60,000 […]

The EU-summit in Seville was confronted with a very big anti-capitalist demonstration on the evening of Saturday June 22. There were hundreds of thousands demonstrators, probably around 300.000! The demonstration remained peaceful and was very […]

Belgian CWI member, Els Deschoemacker, who took part in the general strike demonstrations in Seville yesterday spoke to Geert Cool: "The demonstrations yesterday were massive. Estimations say there were 200,000 in Seville. In Barcelona it […]

20 June 2002 – Today’s 24-hour general strike in protest at the Aznar government’s decision to cut unemployment benefits has ground much of Spain to a halt. BBC World Service comments, "The strike got under […]

On 20 June, workers in Spain will strike for 24 hours against the imposition of a law that drastically cuts unemployment benefit.

Anti-capitalist protesters, trade unionists, and socialists will be demonstrating against the upcoming European Union summit to be held in Seville on 20-21 June 2002. CWI members and supporters from Spain and also from a number […]