‘not one train left the depot’
Ahead of Spain’s 29th September general strike, Millie Wild spoke to a Madrid Metro worker about the recent movement against 5% pay cuts. The Madrid metro went on strike this summer in defiance of the...
View Articlecrisis and class struggle in spain
Millie reflects on the crisis in Spain and the recent general strike The recent boom in the Spanish economy was based on a real estate bubble and most new jobs were in construction and bars and...
View Articleunhappy economies: greek debt, PIIGS and the eurozone crisis
Oisín Mac Giollamóir explains the meaning of the current European crisis, and the relationship between debt and class struggle Happy economies are all alike; every unhappy economy is unhappy in its own...
View Articlespanish miners strike back against austerity
By Adam Ford Two sets of miners have now been occupying their workplace for a month Spanish miners are now a month into action against the Popular Party government, and behind them the international...
View Articlethe spanish revolution
In memory of Terry Liddle, a member of the Commune who died recently, we republish his short summary on the Spanish Revolution. In 1931 the Spanish King Alfonso XIII, having supported the discredited...
View Articlebarcelona 1936-37: social revolution or republican State?
Barry Biddulph argues that the workers revolution in Barcelona in 1936 was contained within republican state structures, then destroyed, as a war in defence of a reconstituted republican state replaced...
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