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Extraordinary Scenes: Striking Miners arrive to heroes’ welcome in Madrid

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Incredible images are coming in from Madrid tonight, showing the crowds of over 150,000 people who came out onto the streets to support the striking miners on their Black March.

Tuesday night, the marching miners triumphantly entered the city, having walked halfway across Spain in protest against the government’s austerity cuts and plans to remove subsidies from the coal mining industry.

The miners’ strike has been seen as the People’s Strike, born out of last year’s Indignados demonstrations, and has gained country-wide support as the miners marched form town-to-town, city-to-city.

Tonight’s arrival in Madrid will be the start of larger demonstrations tomorrow against the government’s policies.

While Spain’s mainstream media has ignored tonight’s events, the people of Spain have been sharing photographs and footage on line, of which these are but a small selection.

More can be found here and here. Read more on the story here.
 
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Video by Juan Luis Sánchez for El Diario, via Socialist Worker.
 
With thanks to Maria Salavessa Hormigo Guimil, Isabel Mar Almadan and Teresa Carrington
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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07.10.2012
09:09 pm
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