Austerity continues unabated in Spain,
with the usual wage cuts/freezes, massive layoffs and the resultant
poverty that ensues with such policies. Monday 4 November, saw
thousands of the refuse collectors demonstrate in Madrid, it was a
noisy and colourful affair, they set off fire crackers, chanted and
started bonfires in the Puerto del Sol plaza. This was to mark the
start, at midnight, of an indefinite strike by the refuse workers in
protest against the plans to lay-off more than 1,000 staff. The
refuse workers started to converge on the Puerto del Sol plaza in the
late evening. Another city, another angry population, another country
facing deprivation, the face of 21 century capitalism.
This picture is repeated across the
world, how do you keep silent, how do you keep calm, when millions
die in poverty, while the few lavish themselves in unimaginable
wealth. A wealth created by us, the ordinary people. As children die
of hunger, the parasites grow fat on their blood. This system has
nothing to recommend it to the ordinary people, it is a system of
abuse and exploitation that favours the greedy.
