THE STATE-OWNED TELEVISION DENIES THEY ARE PLANNING LAYOFFS BUT TRADE UNION SOURCES STAND BY THEIR PREDICTIONS

Ral F. Millares (Madrid) / Translation: Susana Macas

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The recent dismissal of several household names in Radio Televisin Espaola (RTVE, Spanish TV & Radio) lead to rumours about larger scale redundancies while standards slip.

EU/ THE EUROPEAN STABILITY MECHANISM HAS BEEN IN FORCE SINCE OCTOBER 8TH

GIUSEPPE BOTTAZZI (MILAN) / Translated by Esther Ortiz Vzquez

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The main EU “anti-crisis weapon” threatens to reproduce the damaging aftermath caused by the Troika in Greece

General Strike

Editorial Notes / Translation: Rob Dyas

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The European economic commissioner has made assurances that there is no need for Rajoy to make more cuts in 2013, this the same day that five countries within the EU executed their first joint general strike. The activities of the day represented a social response to the politics of austerity imposed upon millions of people in the euro zone. The day was brought to a close with the now familiar police harassment of protesters.

Blanca y Ca (Seville Editorial) / Translation: Rob Dyas & Juan Martn Rodrguez

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In the middle of the current economic model’s ongoing crisis, alternatives are developing that appeal to a more human form of management.

INTERVIEW | LAURA ARAU DESCRIBES THE BOARDING OF THE FLOTILLA BOAT AND ISRAELI THREATS

Mara Jos Esteso Poves / Translated by Rob Dyas.

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On the 20th October, thirty activists from the third Freedom Flotilla were accosted in international waters, detained and threatened by Israel. The international community has yet to condemn this illegal act.

 The Boycott Israel Movement Goes from Strength to Strength in Europe

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement

Rob Dyas

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The Boycott movement against Israeli apartheid continues to highlight Israeli crimes and put economic and political pressure on the apartheid regime. The Catalunya support group is busy preparing for a national conference on the 19th-21st October.

Raids and brutality against migrants

Patricia Manrique / Translated by Juan Martn Rodrguez

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Various organisations condemn the increasing institutional violence while the Spanish and Moroccan governments look the other way

Notes from Occupy Congress protests

Madrilonia / Translated by Lara Hernndez

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Tens of thousands of people took the streets disobeying the state of emergency imposed by the Government. This text analyzes the significance of the protest.

 Video: Thousands Surround Spanish Parliament in Bid to "Occupy Congress" and Stop Austerity

Occupy Congress

Mara Carrin / Democracy Now!

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Coverage of the anti-austerity protests going on at the Spanish Parliament on September 25th, a massive civil desobedience action "to rescue the Congress from the abduction of the financial markets".

Diego Caamero, secretary general of Andalusian Workers Union

Beatriz Bonete / Translated by Susana Macas and Rob Dyas

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Unionist from rural Andalusia outlines the reason of the latest actions set up by his union in a second phase of demonstrations.

 Expropriations return to the fore.

ANDALUCA | THE LAST JUDICIAL PROCESS FOR ACTIVISM OF THIS KIND IN SEVILLE ENDED WITH THE ACQUITTAL OF ALL THE ACCUSED

Bernat Costa Reimondez (Seville Editorial) / Translated By Robert Dyas

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Despite the recent media furore following the action of the Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores (Andalusian Workers Union), this is a kind of civil disobedience that is not unusual in Spain.

 Interview with Diego Caamero, unionist: "Those kilos of rice and beans have gone around the world"

Spain faces an economic adjustment program of approximately 102 billion euros from 2012 to 2014

Isidro Lpez (Madrilonia) / Translated by Sarah Pilar Iacobucci and Juan Martin Rodrguez

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The announcement from Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), about the plans for huge purchases of Spanish (and Italian) bonds has resulted in a rapid fall in the average interest rate that the Spanish Treasury must pay to finance itself. Pending confirmation of the details, the Spanish risk premium declined substantially to just under 400 points. The measure will not however be ‘free of charge’ for Spain.

In 2012 there have already been 3 cases of deaths in custody in Catalonia

D.F. (La Directa) / Translated by Robert Dyas and Susana Macas

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Juan Pablo T. died 15 days ago in Trueta hospital having being admitted by ambulance from the local police station

National Public Health System was attending freely everybody without regarding its legal situation in the country

Diego Sanz Paratcha / Translated by Sarah Pilar Lacobucci y Esther Ortiz Vzquez

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A resident of the Madrid neighborhood of Moratalaz will retain her free diabetes treatments after managing to obtain an appointment for the renewal of her residency at the last moment.

The bank that holds the most deposits and assets for Spanish residents

Madrilonia / Translated by Robert Dyas

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Bankia is nothing more than a private bank paid for by everyone: millions of people who deposited their money in public building societies to which can be added the €4.5 billion of state money paid through the FROB (public banking restructuring fund). Following an analysis of the financial practices of Caja Madrid and Bankia, we can confirm that the contracted debt is illegitimate because it is owing to the profiteering of the directors and related businessmen in connivance with the political parties and major unions.

Banksters’ fraud

F. Fatale / Translated by Florencio Cabello and Langdon Winner

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The signature of the memorandum [bank bailout plan] with the EU hasn’t caught 15MpaRato flat-fooded. Here we review the course of the citizens’ initiative that has been successful in including its lawsuit in the case against Bankia brought before the Audiencia Nacional, the court that deals with serious crimes in Spain.