For two months thousands of Spain’s coal miners have been on strike. They are fighting to stop the Spanish government’s plans to cut mining subsidies by 64 per cent, putting 30,000 jobs at risk.
They’ve taken their protest directly to the conservative government in Madrid and have been subjected to brutal police repression, fighting back with home-made rockets and dynamite.
Their dispute hinges, as do most at the moment, on austerity measures. The Spanish government decided to cut the subsidy to the coal mining industry from 703 million euros ($853 million) to 253 million euros ($307 million). To put this in perspective, this amounts to 0.45 per cent of the 100 billion euro ($121 billion) bailout for Spanish banks agreed last week.
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i would guess that those who
i would guess that those who were involved in the civil war would never have guessed that the miners would be heard to say no pasaran and adelante ( as they face there brothers and sisters in riot gear)
,,, just as the rebels were heard to say back then.... and yet king carlos has been spending a fortune on safari this year....soon the students,the miners and the people of espana will like all the people around the world be free to live in peace,,and together we can look forward to been able to say,,,,do you remember when violence was a way of the people....no not really,that was such a long time ago....,,,those days are not far away...
light and love,,,and remember,,love is the only way :)))))...