29M, General Strike.

Nowadays syndicates all over Spain have been celebrating a general strike in spite of fighting for workers and citizen’s rights against government’s restrictions. After knowing this no one is going to oppose to the strike. But well, let’s go a little bit further with syndicate’s reasons for organising this event: the labour reform. Rajoy, Spain’s president, says that with the new labour reform it’s going to be easier to fire employees without giving as details as it is requested now. He also says that it will take longer to go en pension and this pension will be lower, even more, he wants workers to pay more taxes but still remain the salaries or even, worse, reduce them. And that’s just by using crisis as an excuse.

Everyone will agree, this is insane, or at least too much, and therefore I agree with the people who goes outside and exercise his right to protest, but this is way too far from what happened today. What was supposed to be a calm and pacific demonstration has turned into a salvage repertory of free violence and a huge violation of other citizen’s rights who didn’t wanted to take part in the strike. As you’ve got the right to do a strike you can also decide not to, and nobody has the power to order you to or not to participate. This is a basic idea of a free society with freedom of expression.

Otherwise, the way the outraged were claiming for their rights was absolutely desprestigiable and also salvage. People breaking glasses, shop’s magazines, panting with sprays, fighting the other people who didn’t wanted to demonstrate ... I felt pure shame...

Summarizing, maybe they’re right and the government is not doing it right but that’s not the way either to fight for your rights, cause fighting that way makes you lose all your points.