Human Wrongs Watch
Millions of citizens continue to protest in major Spanish cities against the right-wing government’s policy of severe cuts imposed on health, education and unemployment subsidies, while reducing public workers’ wages and increasing taxes on law and mid income people to save 65 billion euro (US$80 billion) in two and a half years. Over the last seven months, Mariano Rajoy’s government has focused basically on the immediate bail out of private banks with up to 100 billion euro (over US$120 billion).
**Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Photo: Iker Parriza
By Chris Marsden (WSWS)* – Thursday’s [19 July] demonstrations in Spain against the Popular Party (PP) government’s latest austerity measures were a mass outpouring of anger and defiance.
Well over a million and possibly several million protested in 80 cities, with some estimates of the numbers protesting in the capital Madrid as high as 800,000, and hundreds of thousands protesting in Barcelona.
The protests coincided with parliament meeting to approve a package of €65 billion (US$80 billion) of wage cuts, spending cuts and tax increases announced earlier by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
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