Sunday, August 12, 2012

Spanish workers expropriate food from supermarkets

Click here to access article by Carlos Delclós from Reflections on a Revolution. 

The author describes some extraordinary methods used by some Spanish people to deal with the ongoing assault on their lives by the austerity policies of their One Percent.  
...the action is a spectacular example of the type of civil disobedience people all over Spain are engaging in to resist the government’s simultaneous imposition of neoliberal austerity and their pardoning of financial criminals and kleptocratic elites. Citizens refusing to pay outrageous fees for public transportation and toll roads, doctors refusing to deny free health care to undocumented immigrants, and police refusing orders to assault protesters are just some examples of how, like the budget cuts, the Spanish regime’s crisis of legitimacy extends to all sectors of Spanish society.