TRUCKERS FUEL STRIKE CONTINUES IN SPAIN > >Forward from mart. >Please distribute widely! >****************************** >Again, the capitalist media is misleading the world and distorting the >truth. This truckers shutdown is not only about fuel costs and fuel taxes. >It's about the sweatshop conditions, excessive hours, unpaid labour and lack >of labour rights that truckers face. The only reason that fuel is an issue, >is that the drivers are paying for the fuel out of their own pockets (!) and >are unable to get increased compensation, either from the carriers, who they >are forced to lease their trucks (and themselves!) to, or from the shippers, >whose product they are hauling!! >These " little guys" are being squeezed, *between* and by, two, large >powerful sectors of monopoly capitalism, but then, I guess this information >is far too dangerous for the capitalist news media to tells us about!! No, >better for capitalism, to convince us, that >the problem is big government and taxes, while ignoring the soaring profits >being made by the corporations, out of this oil price crisis, on the backs >of working people. >mart. >From: The Infamous Vinnie Gangbox [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: October 2, 2000 5:57 PM > TRUCKERS FUEL STRIKE CONTINUES IN SPAIN >************************************************************* >----- Original Message ----- > from CNN.COM: > Spain braces for new fuel protest >************************************** > Fuel protests and blockades have disrupted Spain for weeks > October 1, 2000 > Web posted at: 11:29 AM EDT (1529 GMT) >*************************************************** > > MADRID, Spain (Reuters) - Hauliers [TRUCKERS] are set to start a >three-day strike by setting up border blockades in protest at soaring >fuel prices, ignoring Spanish government accusations of irresponsibility. > > After talks between the two sides failed to produce agreement, hauliers > vowed to go ahead with nationwide protests from midnight Sunday. > > Fishermen and farmers who clashed with police in Seville and Barcelona >on Friday also plan to extend blockades and protests, continuing the wave >of unrest unleashed across Europe by high fuel prices. > > "It will be a major protest. People are upset and nervous and this is going >to be a very active week," Manuel Garcia Tagua, an official of Unitrans, > the lorry [TRUCK] drivers' association said. > > No more negotiation -- Spanish government The government stuck to its tough >line, repeating its refusal to cut fuel tax and vowing to keep fuel supplies >moving. > > "The government will guarantee that supplies will be regular... and it >is not going to put anything else on the table of negotiation," Agricultural > Minister Miguel Arias Canete told state radio. > > Development Minister Francisco Alvarez Cascos, who sought to avert the > strike in marathon weekend talks, accused the hauliers of irresponsibility. > > "Blocking a strategic sector is bad for everyone," he told CNN. > > "Whoever cannot show that he is doing the utmost to avoid it will have >to justify to the Spanish people why he is putting his self interest ahead >of the general interest." > > Garcia said all major trucking organisations would join the protests, > which will coincide with an annual blockade by European lorry drivers >on Wednesday in protest at long and dangerous hours. > > With protests last week leaving service stations running out of fuel in > Barcelona and fresh fish unobtainable on the eastern and southern >coasts, the government convinced most farming and fishing groups to >go back to work after offering soft loans and lower social security >payments. > > But dissident groups demanding drastic reductions in fuel pricescontinued >demonstrating over the weekend, even though anti-riot police broke down > their blockades at fuel depots on Friday. > > Copyright 2000 Reuters. All rights reserved >*********************************************************************** _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
