World Popular Resistance Clippings 14/3/2013

Colombia’s biggest coal exporter attacked with explosives

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Unknown assailants bombed the rail line of Colombia’s largest coal exporter on Thursday, knocking 17 wagons off the rails, the Cerrejon coal company said. The latest attack comes only days after Cerrejon and its workers signed a wage deal to end a strike that had [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 2/18/2013

Iberia workers and riot police clash at start of five-day strike

 

Riot police clashed with striking workers (video) from Spain‘s Iberia airline on Monday as they began a five-day stoppage in protest at plans to sack a fifth of the workforce in a country struggling with 26% unemployment.

As hundreds of flights were [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 8/12/2012

Guangxi city riots over police handling of smuggler

Police have clashed with thousands of protesters in the Guangxi city of Dongxing. The protests began after a suspected smuggler was almost killed by police who drove into him whilst he was riding his motorbike. Dongxing is in the far south of Guangxi province, right on the [...]

SPEECH FROM GRAN MARCHA HACIA EL COMUNISMO ADRESSED AT THE INTERNATIONATIONAL CONFERENCE OF MADRID CONVENED BY THE PERU PEOPLE´S MOVEMENT (27 OCTOBER 2012)

 

Comrades, Gran Marcha Hacia el Comunismo is grateful to the Peru People´s Movement for having invited us to attend this International Conference. Currently in Spain, month after month, the rulers of the reactionary “popular” party do not stop in implementing anti-worker and anti-people measures following the mandates of their bosses comfortably seated in [...]

Anger over Basque activist’s extradition to Spain

PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of local officials and activists have protested the French government’s decision to extradite a woman to Spain who is suspected of separatist activity. French authorities have come under criticism for extraditing Aurore Martin last week. Martin was wanted in Spain for her work with the Basque party Batasuna, which is illegal [...]

60 injured in riot at Madrid music festival: officials

Sixty people were injured and 11 arrested when hundreds of youths hurled bottles and burned bins in clashes with police outside a music festival in Madrid on Saturday, officials said.

Youths rioted when they were turned away from the MTV Madrid Beach open air festival in western Madrid early on Saturday because the concert area [...]

CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE OF THE MAOIST COMMUNIST PARTY OF GALICIA: WHAT IS IT AND WHAT ARE ITS AIMS?

 

This document covers in short our stands and objectives. We are conscious about the reductionist risk it implies, but in so far as the work of the Construction Committee develops, specific documents will expand and tackle in depth the topics raised.

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT The current situation started with the destruction of [...]

Emotions run high as eviction leads to protest in northern Spain

Protesters tried to prevent the eviction of an Ecuadorian family unable to maintain its mortgage payments in Oviedo, northern Spain. Jorge Cordero, his wife Patricia and five-month-old daughter Amanda were evicted because they could not keep up mortgage payments to the Cajastur bank. Seventeen people locked themselves in the apartment with the owner and [...]

Spain miners fire rockets in violent clash with police

CINERA, Spain — Rioting coal miners fired rockets at Spanish police who responded with rubber bullets Tuesday as weeks of protests against cuts to mine subsidies turned increasingly violent.

Some 200 masked miners clashed with riot police in Cinera, one of several northern mining villages where protests have rumbled for more than a month [...]

7 injured as Spanish miners clash with police

 

EL SOTON, Spain (AP) — Striking coal miners armed with homemade rockets and slingshots clashed with police in northern Spain on Friday, leaving seven people injured, two of them seriously, the Interior Ministry said.

The strike is the latest and the most violent of many in Spain in reaction to harsh [...]