Mar
30

[ en ] General strike marks another step forward for indignados
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The major success of Thursday’s general strike in Spain hails the maturation of the movement and the emergence of a new type of networked labor action. by Raimundo Viejo and Carlos Delclos for ROARMAG Predictably, most of the neoliberal media’s coverage of the general strikes in Spain focuses on the targeted property damage that took place during the protests in Barcelona, where hundreds of masked citizens seriously damaged several major banks, a Starbucks and the Opus Dei-related, upper-class hypermarket El Corte Inglés. It is no mistake that conservative representatives of that country’s eroding institutions are resorting to desperate terms like “criminal instinct” in order to paint the protests as some […]