Friday, March 30, 2012

General strike marks another step forward for indignados

Taken from RoarMag

'In effect, the only form of mass opposition available to people in Spain is in the streets. Through mobilization, dissociation and the emergence of new types of actors, distances are opening up between the formal constitution of the government and the material constitution of society to reveal new possibilities for the future. 
As each day passes, breaking with the current regime and establishing an alternative are less the ideological desires of revolutionaries and more an issue of necessity for the average person in light of the dire circumstances they face daily. Those who wish to work will have to do it through cooperatives. 
Those who wish to learn will have to organize their own alternative universities. Those who wish to inform themselves will have to look to the alternative media. And those who wish to have cultural goods will have to share them. 
This is the politics of the common that we saw in action in our streets today, and which we will see in the alternative institutions of tomorrow.'

Also see: Spain leader vows hard line as hundreds of thousands protest austerity

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