SOCIALIST UNITY

Violent protests have broken out outside the docks in the HJ Barreras shipyard in the northwestern Spanish city of Viga, and outside the PSA Peugeot-Citroën factory. The clips here are of earlier violence at the end of May and beginning of June.

The dispute over pay has been rumbling on for several weeks, involving 30000 engineering workers. Pickets have spread out throughout the manufacturing sector in the province, and since 16th June metal workers have been on indefinite strike.

The full weight of the state has been used to push the workers back, and there have been on-going clashes between police and trade unionists on several occassions; 8000 job losses are now being threatened by the employers if the strike is not ended immediately. I don’t speak Spanish,  but the most recent report I have found in English suggests that there is now a general strike across Galicia.

Does anyone have any more recent information?

Thanks to Juri Hälker