STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Thursday, 29 March 2012

[girl gone mad]

9. General strike in Spain today.

29M – Strike in Spain, why?
http://carabanchel.tomalosbarrios.net/2012/03/21/29m-strike-in-spain-why

The new Government has begun with several changes in the Labor Law because it wasn´t enough for the markets, newspapers said, but who are the markets? IMF and Chicago boys around the world, of course. With the excuse of a crisis, the new and conservative Government of Mariano Rajoy has changed again the Labor Law getting off all the rights of working people: freedom to hire and fire for free which, we believe, is not good for workers in a country without any social resources, unlike the rest of Europe, and with one the lowest wages in Europe (in Spain the legal minimum for a 40 h/week job is 645 €/month, in Luxemburg is 1700 €).

At the same time 48 State companies have been closed, being one of them the State Company of Rent (the organism that let access to a flat to the people with low wages– absolutely necessary in this moment–), and, at the same time, giving millions of Euros to the banks for it’s own business, Government is getting this money from working taxes. So ironic, so indignant! At Spain we have around forty evictions per day, so we can see so clear the ideological position of the Government that is not making any law to protect the families but giving money to the banks for clearing their debt. It´s not a crisis, It´s a trick.

But it´s not only about rights and banks. Also they are applying all the corrupt manners that the capitalism let them to improve themselves: with many of the State companies becoming private, we can read on the newspapers how the politicians give a very good positions to trust people, relatives included. The regional Gobernment of the Region of Madrid has fired 3.500 people from public Primary and High schools and at the same time they promote the orthodox catholic to better positions in the private educational system, and even they support BBVA bank to create a foundation to teach in the State system about capitalism manners. In the Public Health System we are expecting 4.500 fires at the end of the month, and at the same time one of the most famous businessman that owns one of the biggest building company, ACS, get from the same President the possibility to manage public hospitals. Mrs. President next step will be to give to the New Yok Univerity a Palace, which property is from the citizens in Carabanchel (neighborhood in Madrid), for free, and the questions that we make to ourselves now are what will the President Aguirre get in return for that? Is our Regional President making this present only for political reasons?

We have a lot of reasons for a national strike and also for an international action for a global attack. We are the 99%.

Mmmmm.... cake!