Fight Against Austerity is Fight for 'Democracy's Legitimacy'

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Published on Sunday, September 30, 2012 by Common Dreams

Anti-Austerity Fervor Rages in Spain and Portugal
Fight Against Austerity is Fight for 'Democracy's Legitimacy'

- Common Dreams staff


Riot police struggle with protesters during demonstrations in Madrid against austerity cutbacks. (Photograph: Chema Moya/EPA)Tens of thousands of Spaniards and Portuguese took to the streets in their respective countries on Saturday, showing the resilience of the anti-austerity sentiment in Europe and calling on their governments to end the destruction of budget-slashing economic policies.

The protests in Madrid was the the third large-scale protest in a week and followed directly on Friday's announcement by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of the government's 2013 draft budget that will cut overall spending by $51.7 billion, freezing the salaries of public workers and cutting unemployment benefits.

Al-Jazeera reports from Madrid:

Chanting that politicians must resign, the demonstrators surrounded parliament (...) facing off with riot police and denouncing the conservative government's deep budget cuts.

Rallied by the ("Indignados&quot protest movement and organised on social media, the protesters held up signs that said simply "No", "Resign" and "Democracy" and shouted toward the legislature: "They do not represent us".

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Writing about what's driving the popular movement in Europe—and to some extent in the US—professor of economics at Cambridge Ha-Joon Chang says it is a reaction to the rise of global capitalism that pushes an austerity agenda which he describes as "nothing short of a complete rewriting of the implicit social contracts that have existed since the end of the second world war." ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/30-1

[orpupilofnature57]

1. A fight against Austerity is an enemy to the 1%

and to the buffer zone that could never reach that impossible figure, " Enough " which is why it's necessary to exclude as many people as possible in order to " Progress " at 600% profit .