The author reports on Spain's general strike that occurred yesterday. He sees positive trends in the development of people's resistance to neoliberal governance through the application of a broad range of tactics. As expected, the ruling elite's media try to frame any property destruction as violence while ignoring the real violence perpetrated by their enforcers and collaborators against the activists.
Roos anticipates the development of a radically new consciousness among the people:
As each day passes, breaking with the current regime and establishing an alternative are less the ideological desires of revolutionaries and more an issue of necessity for the average person in light of the dire circumstances they face daily. Those who wish to work will have to do it through cooperatives. Those who wish to learn will have to organize their own alternative universities. Those who wish to inform themselves will have to look to the alternative media. And those who wish to have cultural goods will have to share them. This is the politics of the common that we saw in action in our streets today, and which we will see in the alternative institutions of tomorrow.As inspirational as this article is, it lacks sufficient details of the event. To make up for this lack, I refer you to a report from World Socialist Web Site.
