Pics of all the days events - strike, blockades, pickets, marches, burning etc. All taken from libcom.org

 http://libcom.org/forums/news/fresh-general-strike-greece-unions-moot-general-strike-spain-13052010?page=10#comment-475398


MercaSevilla shut by more than a thousand pickets, some trouble with the police
100% strike by the rubbish collectors in Cadiz
pickets going round closing bars at midnight
Jaen- 100 pickets make sure the post service is closed. Police search and arrest pickets.
1 am seville 70% of the night shift at Renault is on strike
2 am three arrests in Malaga of young pickets trying to close down bars
Pickets from the 15-M movement in Seville go round Triana closing bars
4:45 am Cordoba MercaCordoba not a single lorry enters. Three arrests.
8 am University of Seville 100% on strike

Students blocked the main road into Madrid this morning causing a massive fuck-off traffic jam..

Also big transport and airline strikes by the sound of things..

Madrid- lot of police charges, people injured and arrested.

According to Soli Obrera the strike in the transport sector has been very strong.

There was a "bicipicket" of 200 cyclists going round the M30 motorway at nine in the morning blocking the motorway!

In the bus stations pickets "sabotaging" (don't know if breaking, painting over or what) windscreens of buses, these buses have had to stop running.

Electricity consumption lower than the last strike which means less industry running.

Police charges in the bus depots with horses, pickets arrested.

12 people arrested last night on pickets in Madrid


 http://libcom.org/forums/news/fresh-general-strike-greece-unions-moot-general-strike-spain-13052010?page=10#comment-475386

Young picket badly injured by police in Vitoria

Union lawyers say they don't know how many people have been arrested as the police are not letting them speak to people but that it is a lot more than last time.

La Rioja- strike is much stronger than last time. Only two newspapers for sale and pickets trying to stop distribution of those.

Madrid- very few people have gone to work in RTVE (buses) hardly any buses are running. A security guard threatened pickets with an iron bar.

(I think these are towns near Madrid or barrios of Madrid)
Carabanchel- two pickets arrested at Mercadona

Alcorcon- police threaten pickets at gunpoint. At midnight about 150 people picketing bus depot and stopping servicios minimos from leaving. Someone was filming pickets, they demanded to see some identification, this person refused, police then started shoving elderly pickets and arrested a younger picket who tried to defend them. The pickets gathered round and the police pulled out their guns. The police continued harrasing the pickets violently throughout the morning. Later pickets went to ALcampo where they had heard that the company was threatening workers if they went on strike. There were a lot of police waiting at ALcampo.

People said they couldn't ever remember such a strong strike in Alcorcon and they also remarked on the aggression of the police which was much worse that 2010 (which was no picnic either, translator's note)

Madrid- strike "massive" in industrial sector, much bigger than last time.
Ports shut down in Valencia, Algeciras, Vigo, Barcelona.
Burning barricades in Seville.

Useful post on Spain as the next Greece:
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/mar/29/eurozone-crisis-spanish-general-strike#block-29