The impressive mobilisation against the war has been non-stop since February. Millions of demonstrators have come out onto the streets again and again to show their absolute opposition to the imperialist slaughter in Iraq and to the servile support which the Spanish conservative government is giving to this war. The start of the war on March 20th brought about real social turmoil. Around 800,000 high school and university students took to the streets paralysing the cities of Spain. The students' movement had made their own the call of the Sindicato de Estudiantes to demonstrate on the day the war started. Since then, the situation has been one of ceaseless activity: demonstrations and rallies every day, sit-ins of actors and artists against the Partido Popular (PP) MPs and a boycott of their activities and meetings, rallies at the headquarters of the PP and many other protest activities. These are an expression of the growing indignation and anger of the people at the arrogance and provocative stance of Aznar and the whole of his government. It is also worth mentioning that the isolation of this government has reach such a point that it is reacting in a completely hysterical manner. The response of the masses to the policies of the government has been overwhelming and that explains why they have tried to undermine the movement by using savage and indiscriminate police repression. They have desperately tried to concentrate the attention of the people on the "acts of violence" which the police have actually tolerated and, in many cases, incited in order to have the excuse to attack the demonstrations. The level of arrogance and openly provocative behaviour of the government can be seen in the fact that they have tried to criminalise the antiwar movement by taking the organisers to court and claiming that they are the victims of harassment in the streets.