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“No Somos Delito” (“We Are Not Crime”)

9 December 2014 - by No somos delito

“No Somos Delito” (“We Are Not Crime”) was formed in late 2013 to counter the attempt of the Spanish Government to undermine peaceful protest and civil disobedience. It is an umbrella organisation formed by more than 70 civil rights associations, (...)
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Telefonica-Movistar: a united fight against exploitation

1 July 2014 - by Esther Vivas

The tentacles of Spain’s Telefonica Movistar spread far and wide. I refer not only to the interests of their shareholders, such as banks BBVA and La Caixa, or close links with political power, and their “representatives” on the board, but its (...)
Movements against Spanish state debt

For a new social deal that can transform Europe

1 July 2014 - by Sergi Cutillas

Since the awakening of the squares in 2011 the political atmosphere in the Spanish state has changed dramatically. “Frustration, despair and fear, instead of being channelled towards the far right, have gone towards the creation of opportunities (...)
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Why we shouldn’t pay the debt: Reasons and alternatives

22 June 2014 - by PACD

To the anonymous pyrate Greed upon greed upon greed upon the World Bank of the open sea, heart closed to justice, blind eye resisting all light. Death for glory and the jaundice of gold for health, in the settling of accounts between empires (...)
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Half a million citizens in Spain now have control over municipal government accounts

22 June 2014 - by PACD

Over half a million people now have access to real participation in their municipality The OCMs: citizen bodies to control local governments (subtitles in: English, French, Italian, Greek, Portuguese and German). After [two years of (...)
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Spanish State: After the abdication of the king, it’s time to checkmate the regime

5 June 2014 - by Esther Vivas

The regime is collapsing, it is dying and in its last-ditch struggle to survive, the king has abdicated. Never has the regime resulting from the Transition been as widely challenged as it is today. The pillars on which it rests, the monarchy, (...)
A summary of the report “Profiting from crisis”

13 May 2014 - by Giulia Simula

What do international arbitration institutions have in common with Domino’s Pizza, public transport operators, pawnbrokers, discount supermarkets, property auctioneers, and opposition politicians? Answer: all have profited from the global (...)
Spain’s Marches for Dignity converge on Madrid

3 April 2014 - by Jérôme Duval

In Spain, despite the government’s claims of growth and a revival in exportations, there’s no shortage of reasons for people to demonstrate. To pick one among others, according to a report by Cáritas, there are currently three million people who (...)
Exhibition “Living in a Debtocracy”

21 March 2014 - by PACD

The goal of the exhibition is to reach a wide group of people with information about the process of indebtedness of the Spanish State, and its impacts on the population. Through illustrations, plain but serious explanations, charts and date, (...)
Marches for Dignity 22M

27 February 2014 - by Marchas de la dignidad

No to pay the debt! No more cuts! Out governments Troika! Bread, work and shelter for all! We’re starting 2014 with no improvement for the workers, sunk in an unprecedented capitalist crisis and without any measures on the part of this (...)
Spain: popular resistance delivers results

5 February 2014 - by Esther Vivas

Victory against Madrid’s hospital privatisation – and other recent struggles in Spain – shows popular resistance delivers results. “Resisting is pointless”, we hear endlessly repeated. “So many years of protest but the crisis continues, why bother?” (...)
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Joint statement by Europa laica (Spain), the Atheists and Free Thinkers’ Union of Spain, and the French National Federation of the Free Thought (France)

27 January 2014 - by Collectif

Another crime against the rights of women to freely decide for their own body is being prepared in Spain !!! The Popular Party, which holds an absolute majority of MPs in Spain, is pushing to change the law on abortion implemented since (...)
Spain in 2014: Not a Prosperous New Year

4 January 2014 - by Esther Vivas

We have entered 2014 a little poorer. For those of us with a job, our salaries have been frozen, or even cut; only a few can expect a rise in the New Year. Furthermore, the price of electricity, public transport and water are increasing. 2013 (...)
Catalonia: independence from Spain, independence from capitalism

16 September 2013 - by Esther Vivas

Hundreds of thousands turned out last September 11 to demand independence for Catalonia. Some decided to surround the Caixa, form a human chain around the largest bank in Catalonia and third largest in Spain, to demand not only independence from (...)
Press release

Towards the Week of Global Action against Debt and IFIs

11 July 2013 - by PACD

From May 31st to June 2nd the III State Meeting of the Spanish Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD)– We don’t owe! We won’t pay! took place. Activists from all over the Spanish State (as well as some from Portugal and Belgium)participated in this (...)
Did you know…? The TROIKA

10 July 2013 - by PACD

The Troika is the informal name of the “decision making” group made up by the European Central Bank (ECB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Commission (EC). These three multilateral agencies - integrated by various (...)
What the Spanish Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD) means by “Citizen Debt Audit” and “Illegitimate Debt”

21 June 2013 - by PACD

This past March 12th the left-wing parliamentarian group Izquierda Plural (IU, ICV-EUIA & CHA) presented in the Congress of Deputies a non-legislative motion for “the creation of a Public Debt Audit”, as well as “a commission to determine the (...)
Greece and Spain helped postwar Germany recover. Spot the difference

27 February 2013 - by Nick Dearden

Sixty years ago, half of German war debts were cancelled to build its economy. Yet today, debt is destroying those creditors Sixty years ago today, an agreement was reached in London to cancel half of postwar Germany’s debt. That cancellation, (...)
“A week of fighting for freedom from debt”

The Global Week of Action against Debt and IFIs; a global mobilization that is gaining strength in Spain. From October 8th to 15th, the Global Week of Action against Debt will be celebrated worldwide. The Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD) has (...)
Text read at Neptuno Square (next to the Congress of Spain) on September 29^th

Last 25S we called to surround the Congress of the members of parliament to rescue it from the kidnapping of the popular sovereignty carried out by the Troika and the financial markets. An occupation executed with the consent and colaboration of (...)
Spanish state. 25S: the salvaging of democracy

29 September 2012 - by Esther Vivas

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid on Tuesday September 25, 2012 to protest against the sequestration of popular sovereignty by the banks and “markets”. Repression was once again brutal, leaving dozens of people wounded, and there (...)
Spain: Let’s encircle the Congress. We are the sovereign people!

11 September 2012 - by Plataforma “¡En Pie!”

We, ordinary people are fed up to live with the consequences of a system conditioned by and forced to adapt itself to the markets, which is in every respect insupportable, and has led us to be victims of a large scale scam which has caused this (...)
The Spanish Memorandum is a Traitor’s Deal

13 July 2012 - by David Lizoain

Soon newspapers will be reporting that Spain has finally amount to an unconditional surrender. The Troika will be given free rein to impose its agenda. The Spanish government has betrayed its citizens. In exchange for this sacrifice of (...)
Must a Debt always be paid?

28 June 2012 - by Daniel Gómez-Olivé i Casas

The author proposes that a public debt that has grown spectacularly since the start of the crisis should be considered illegitimate. DANIEL GÓMEZ-OLIVÉ I CASAS (OBSERVATORY OF DEBT IN GLOBALISATION) / Translated by Robert Dyas. Some would say (...)
Citizen Debt Audit Platform “We don’t owe! We won’t pay!” Spain, Barcelona

Citizens, 15M/Indignados assemblies and various social networks and organizations around the country are building the Citizen Debt Audit Platform to demonstrate the illegitimacy of debt, identify those responsible of the crisis and demand not to (...)