A similar protest in Madrid last month lead to the injury of nearly 40 police officers, and the group has caused riots previously in Barcelona, during the anti-World Bank demonstrations last June. In the past year they have also sparked mass street violence in Almost every major city on the planet – from Cincinnati to Bradford, Gothenburg, Salzburg, Genoa…the list goes on. The organisation is linked to a number of right-wing extremist groups worldwide and has carried out literally thousands of attacks on mainly working-class people and minorities.

The members of this network have committed thousands of murders all over the globe, and can do so with impunity due to their close links with Government. Here in Spain, many of them helped prop up Franco’s fascist regime and elsewhere in Italy have been linked to many terrorist bombings which left hundreds dead in the 70’s.

They prop-up repressive regimes in every continent, and have carried out attacks, killings, “disappearances” and torture of hundreds of thousand of political dissidents, pro-democracy and human rights activists from Beijing to Argentina, the USA to Zimbabwe.

Their comrades in the UK also took to the streets yesterday, with one demand in common – more money.

They seemed to be reluctant to have their pictures taken – this indymedia reporter having to secrete the film in an intimate place as he was searched.