AUSTERITY SPAIN-Rajoy unveils biggest budget cuts in over 30 years
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I’m tempted to say “Told you so” … but apart from propagating socialist ideas and analysis not very much.
HollyHead wrote:I’m tempted to say “Told you so” … but apart from propagating socialist ideas and analysis not very much.Glad you resisted the temptation (though it would be appropriate for those workers who voted for the new government in the recent general election) !I’d say the only thing that workers can do is to try to apply the brake, through collective action, to things getting worse without the illusion that they can stop this. Maybe it’s better to go down fighting like the miners and the P&O workers did in Britain rather than just passively accept the unavoidable.In any case, it strengthens the case for Revolution when the alternative is not even Reform but slowing down Regression.PS Just noticed this from our blog today.
The situation in Spain has motivated many Caribbean workers to comeback to their countries, and some Spanish citizens are emigrating to Venezuela. Many of the workers from the Caribbean they obtained works contracts through different companies with the blessing of the Spanish embassy, but their pay and their benefits were lower to the one given to the Spanish workers, and most of them have been laid off and now the only choice that they have is to return. If Spain goes in default many Spanish business that exist in South America and the Caribbean are going to be affected and it is going to produce also a massive lay off of workers
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