Spain

• Greece and Spain helped postwar Germany recover. Spot the difference

  by Nick Dearden

  27 February 2013

  Sixty years ago, half of German war debts were cancelled to build its economy. Yet today, debt is destroying those creditors Sixty years ago today, an agreement was reached in London to cancel half of postwar Germany’s debt. That cancellation, and the way it was done, was vital to the reconstruction of Europe from war. It stands in marked contrast to the suffering being inflicted on European people today in the name of debt. Germany emerged from the second world war still owing debt that (...)

• "A week of fighting for freedom from debt"

  7 October 2012

  The Global Week of Action against Debt and IFIs; a global mobilization that is gaining strength in Spain. From October 8th to 15th, the Global Week of Action against Debt will be celebrated worldwide. The Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD) has joined this initiative and is planning numerous actions and activities in various cities in Spain to denounce the illegitimacy of debt and social cuts. October 4th, 2012 - The Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD - www.auditoriaciudadana.net/en) joins (...)

• Text read at Neptuno Square (next to the Congress of Spain) on September 29th

  1 October 2012

  Last 25S we called to surround the Congress of the members of parliament to rescue it from the kidnapping of the popular sovereignty carried out by the Troika and the financial markets. An occupation executed with the consent and colaboration of most of the political parties. Besides the constant threats, the manipulation of the media and the intense campaign to inflict fear in the people, thousands of people attended the call and said loud and clear that we have no fear, that we are (...)

• Spanish state. 25S: the salvaging of democracy

  by Esther Vivas

  29 September 2012

  Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid on Tuesday September 25, 2012 to protest against the sequestration of popular sovereignty by the banks and “markets”. Repression was once again brutal, leaving dozens of people wounded, and there were numerous arrests. In this article, Esther Vivas reviews the motivations for this mobilisation and the causes of an ever more brutal police repression. “They call it democracy but this isn’t one” was the cry repeated in the squares and on the (...)

• Spain: Let’s encircle the Congress. We are the sovereign people!

  by Plataforma “¡En Pie!”

  11 September 2012

  We, ordinary people are fed up to live with the consequences of a system conditioned by and forced to adapt itself to the markets, which is in every respect insupportable, and has led us to be victims of a large scale scam which has caused this crisis. We unify in order to edit this manifesto. We invite every citizen to unify themselves with the claims we are making in this manifesto. We perceive that the current situation has exceed all tolerable limits and that we are victims of an (...)

• The Spanish Memorandum is a Traitor’s Deal

  by David Lizoain

  13 July 2012

  Soon newspapers will be reporting that Spain has finally requested a bailout for its financial sector, which will be accompanied by very strict conditionality. Strict is an understatement. The terms agreed in the leaked Memorandum amount to an unconditional surrender. The Troika will be given free rein to impose its agenda. The Spanish government has betrayed its citizens. In exchange for this sacrifice of sovereignty, all Spaniards are promised in return is unending sacrifice. Never mind (...)

• Must a Debt always be paid?

  by Daniel Gómez-Olivé i Casas

  28 June 2012

  The author proposes that a public debt that has grown spectacularly since the start of the crisis should be considered illegitimate. DANIEL GÓMEZ-OLIVÉ I CASAS (OBSERVATORY OF DEBT IN GLOBALISATION) / Translated by Robert Dyas. Some would say that a debt must always be paid. Indeed, the payment of debt is also referred to as “honouring” of a debt. It is treated as more it seems than a simple return: it is treated above all as the keeping of ones word. However, in reality, the repayment of a (...)

• Citizen Debt Audit Platform "We don’t owe! We won’t pay!" Spain, Barcelona

  14 May 2012

  Citizens, 15M/Indignados assemblies and various social networks and organizations around the country are building the Citizen Debt Audit Platform to demonstrate the illegitimacy of debt, identify those responsible of the crisis and demand not to pay an illegitimate debt. In the Spanish state, as in other countries in the European periphery, we are witnessing a Debt Crisis used to justify austerity policies which are destroying social and labour rights won with the effort and struggle of (...)

• The revolt of the indignad@s: moving on to the next stage

  by Josep Maria Antentas, Esther Vivas

  14 June 2011

  It has been almost four weeks. Four weeks that have changed the political landscape of the whole Spanish State with the emergence of a movement which no-one expected and which has been credited with two political victories, first against the Board of Elections and then against the attempted eviction in Barcelona. It is a movement which has, above all, put an end to passive resignation at the attacks on our social rights. After days of intense activism, the effects of fatigue and exhaustion (...)

• Camp Barcelona: V for victory

  by Josep Maria Antentas, Esther Vivas

  30 May 2011

  The movement has won its first victory against repression. The attempted eviction on Friday, May 27 of the camp at plaza Catalunya in Barcelona, the second largest so far in the Spanish state, met with a resounding failure. A week after the movement had politically defeated the prohibition of the Central Electoral Board on demonstrations during the election weekend of May 21- 22, early on Friday morning, the Catalan police tried to evict the camp at plaza Catalunya. Behind the (...)

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