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Morning Star
03-30-2012, 11:21 AM
Millions of Spanish workers joined a general strike on Thursday to protest against the right-wing Popular Party's reactionary labour reforms.


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blindpig
03-30-2012, 02:26 PM
Man, 75-85% support! If that happened in this country the booj would be lining up to charter flights to Switzerland, they are so un-used to seeing any pushback.

Kid of the Black Hole
03-30-2012, 02:32 PM
Man, 75-85% support! If that happened in this country the booj would be lining up to charter flights to Switzerland, they are so un-used to seeing any pushback.

I read a thing that the new conservative government was bragging that the last strike (with a socialist governement in power) caused a 17% drop in electricity usage and this one only caused 16.3%. Somehow that is a "win" or something.