5 Million Unemployed in Spain

[GiantMonkeyMan]

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/317188#ixzz1iOwbMrrE


The economic crisis in Spain is being felt most by workers who are losing their jobs in droves, as 21.5 percent of the population is without a job. Unemployment figures have reached the highest level yet: 5 million people.

Sounds like Spain is in for a rocky 2012. Anyone from that area know more about the situation? I know they elected a conservative government recently who'll no doubt be making even more people unemployed through cuts.

La lucha obrera no tiene fronteras!

[DDR]

We've been around that for half a year so it isn't really news here.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

It just boggles the mind that an entire fifth of the population is out of work and, knowing the ways the government in Britain selectively chooses their statistics to represent unemployment, it's probably even higher than that. What I wanted to know in particular is whether or not the Indignados movement is still going strong, whether there's been any more organisations along those routes, as I don't get much of that sort of news that hasn't been tempered by corporate media.

[GatesofLenin]

All these poor people suffering. International revolution forthcoming?

[Firebrand]

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/317188#ixzz1iOwbMrrE



Sounds like Spain is in for a rocky 2012. Anyone from that area know more about the situation? I know they elected a conservative government recently who'll no doubt be making even more people unemployed through cuts.

La lucha obrera no tiene fronteras!

I don't pretend to know anything about the actual movement there. But as far as I can tell there is a general feeling of anger especially in the south which I picked up on when I was there this summer. Also slight tangent is it just me or is the graffiti in spain more radical than the graffiti in england?

[manic expression]

We've been around that for half a year so it isn't really news here.
Yeah, when I was in the south some months ago it was over 20% unemployed; I found that a lot of younger people have basically given up on the idea of finding a regular job in the country. It's real bad, and it's been real bad for some time.

[DDR]

Yeah, when I was in the south some months ago it was over 20% unemployed; I found that a lot of younger people have basically given up on the idea of finding a regular job in the country. It's real bad, and it's been real bad for some time.

My friends and I have no clue what are we gonna do. A friend of mine is studying to be a teacher and he has signed for the unemployed list to see if something comes as he knows that there won't be any teacher's jobs for quite a long time. I would try to continue studying, a master or something, if not emigration, and that's basicly what everybody is thinking about right now.

[SacRedMan]

From what I've heard there were 4 million unemployed people.

[Veovis]

A damn shame, because I always wanted to emigrate to Spain. Guess that will never happen now.

Come on, Spanish comrades! We need to you take power and declare a workers' state for me to run away to. :D