Our media is never eager to spout the facts but more inclined to
paint a nice picture or report on turmoil in countries far- far away,
but everything here is just fine. Our lords and masters are trying
hard to solve the “Euro crisis” and once that is sort then
everything will be just hunky-dory. Of course right here on our
doorstep there is resistance to the financial Mafia's “austerity”
measures. Country after country is seeing the people take action to
defend themselves against the onslaught of slash and burn tactics of
the financial mafia. One event that has received little or no coverage
by the media is the strike by 8,000 miners in Asturias in Spain. An
area with a long militant anti-right-wing history.
This fromWikipedia.
“The Asturian
miners' strike of 1934 was a major strike
action, against the entry of the CEDA
into the Spanish
government on October 6,[1]
which took place in Asturias
in northern Spain,
that developed into a revolutionary uprising. It was crushed by the
Spanish
Republican Navy and the Spanish
Republican Army, the latter using mainly Moorish troopers from
Spanish
Morocco.[2]
Franco
controlled the movement of the troops, aircraft, warships and
armoured trains
used in the crushing of the revolution. Visiting Oviedo
after the rebellion had been put down he said; " this war is a
frontier war and its fronts are socialism, communism and whatever
attacks civilization in order to replace it with barbarism." [3]
Though the colonial units sent to the north by Franco consisted of
the Spanish Foreign Legion and the Moroccan mercenaries of the
Regulares Indigenas,
the right wing press portrayed the Asturian rebels in xenophobic and
anti-Semitic
terms as the lackeys of a foreign Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy.---”
This present strike has been going on for more than 3 weeks, there has
been running battles with the police, the miners have blocked main
roads and devised guerrilla tactics in their fight against the heavy
state repression being used to try and break their strike.
"Striking coal miners have clashed with police in northern Spain,
in some of the worst disturbances since the government imposed
austerity measures. The interior ministry said at least seven people
had been injured in the clashes outside a mine in Asturias. Miners
fired sky rockets and ball-bearings at riot police who responded with
rubber bullets and tear gas.
The miners are protesting at plans to cut government subsidies
from 300m euros (£242m; $376m) to 110m euros. Thousands of miners
have been on strike across northern Spain for weeks. The interior ministry said police had been trying to remove
roadblocks of burning tyres at El Entrego, near Oviedo, when they
were met with a barrage of missiles fired by the miners. Police fired
tear gas and rubber bullets and after several hours of clashes the
miners took to the surrounding mountains and forests for cover,
reports said.---"
