On October 29, more than half a million students and education workers
went out on the streets to show their opposition to the counter-reform
of the education system which the Spanish right wing government wants
to introduce.
Increasingly, more sections are
participating in mobilisations against the government. Furthermore,
wider layers
of the youth are looking for revolutionary ideas able to provide an
alternative
to this system and to the trade union leaders who are not up to the
task. The
struggle against the PP has barely started.
For the last fifteen days a massive oil slick has been flooding 400 km of the Galician coast. The inaction of the Spanish and regional governments, both in the hands of the right wing PP, and their continuous lies regarding the accident, provoked yesterday, Sunday December 1, a demonstration of 200,000 people, despite the torrential rain. This is the tranlation of the leaflet distributed by the Galician Marxists of El Militante. The leaflet is also available in Galician (O capitalismo é o problema) and Spanish
(El capitalismo es el problema).
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