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Euro Strike #N14 - Vast Anti-Cuts Demo in Madrid

Lock Stock | 14.11.2012 23:01 | Culture | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements

Carpe Diem.................

Madrid tonight! #N14
Madrid tonight! #N14


We need numbers on the streets for future Anti-Cuts demos, starting in London on 21st Nov - next Wednesday. Get out on the streets stickering, flyering, doing graffiti, posting leaflets, putting out banners and posters and talking to people, and get busy with tweets, Facebook and e-mailing EVERYONE. The fact the next major demo's a weekday when most folk will be working makes whatever input we can put in now all the more important. Don't get caught, get the message across, get busy... tonight.

This government has made more U-turns than any other in UK history, so, for those who pretend protest doesn't work, the fact we havn't stopped them yet is a measure of the sheer militancy and greed of their ambitions, it is not proof that protests don't work (if protests didn't work, Maggie Thatcher's Poll Tax would have effectively banned poor people from being able to vote).

Just recently Anti-Cuts protests have forced the government to chase Starbucks, Amazon and Google for the unpaid tax which proves the deficit was created by tax-dodging capitalists and which proves their pretext for cuts and privatisations is a scam.

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Police Violence against Women

14.11.2012 23:09

Police Scum Punches Woman, Spain, 14 Nov 2012 -
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udUTDtXd-nQ

Police violence at the N14 strike day in Madrid in front of the Lion King theatre -
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0nxnM1Wd5g

Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan #14N 14 Nov 2012, video -
 http://bambuser.com/v/3145019

European anti-austerity coalition holds Plebs & PIIGS Banquet, outside City of London Corporation -
 http://piigsinlondon.wordpress.com/tag/black-activists-rising-against-the-cuts/

Barcelona and Madrid, CGT (Anarchist) Trades Union -
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV2MrQgqAtI

Ralph


Lisbon

14.11.2012 23:17

Liz


Effective action works, protest doesn't

15.11.2012 17:26

"if protests didn't work, Maggie Thatcher's Poll Tax would effectively banned poor people from being able to vote" Protests didn't stop the Poll Tax, mass non-payment stopped the Poll Tax. Protests don't work, disrupting the economy works. Open-ended strike action can be effective, single days are pretty useless, even really big, inspiring single days like N14. If having a big strike for one day was effective, then public sector workers wouldn't be having their pensions fucked so viciously.

A


@A

25.11.2012 01:09

Who the FUCK ever said this was about "having a big strike for ONE DAY" you berk

Claire