'Extremists and hooligans' are Merkel , Barroso and their unelectedcroonies !!!!
Diverse groups including Polish patriots, nationalists and groups of football
hooligans took part in Sunday's march. Many of the young men wore scarves or
balaclavas over their faces.
Nationalist marches have been growing in size on the national holiday, with
leftists turning out to oppose them, says the BBC's Adam Easton, in Warsaw.
Last year's march dwarfed its predecessors, with numbers swollen by football
supporters outraged by a government clampdown on violent fans.
However, two other marches marking the day in 1918 when Poland regained its
sovereignty after years of foreign rule passed without incident.
To prevent clashes this year the marches took different routes.
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski also organised his own Independence Day
march with military veterans in an attempt to reclaim the day from what he
called "extremists and hooligans".
Ahead of the march he appealed for a less polarised society.
"Today public life is poisoned by excessive rows," he said. "We should be
critical, but criticism should not mean mutual destruction."
The 11 November celebration marks the day when Poland regained its
independence, 123 years after it was divided between Russia, Prussia and the
Austrian Empire.
5 comments:
'm sure that there will be plenty of comments condemning these protests as the massed whining of privileged workers who are finally being asked to pay their fair share in a system that can no longer afford to help pay their benefits.
But why is it these articles are so often not linked to the articles reporting increased tax cuts for corporations, and the resulting record corporate profits? These four events - loss of state revenue due to reduced tariffs and taxes, record corporate profits, a sudden drop in money available to governments to pay for benefits, and the demand that the workers (without whom there would be no wealth in the first place) must shoulder the burden of their benefits - are inextricably linked. However, you could just reduced it to: Corporate profits up = worker benefits down. Fortunately more people are realizing that it's not a question of there being too little money, it's a question of too much of it being in too few hands.
Chomskyfan
14 November 2012 7:40AM
Good, too much to hope that this spirited action reaches the shores of this apathetic Murdoch whipped country. This austerity could be avoided by a land and property tax which would greedy tax avoiding corporates and individuals to pay taxes.
European workers are holding their biggest ever co-ordinated strike action and protests today against the austerity programmes that are gripping the region.
General strikes are already underway in Spain and Portugal, and workers in Greece and Italy are also expected to walk out.
The European Day of Action and Solidarity is designed as a sign to leaders to abandon the programmes of tax rises and spending cuts that are being implemented since the financial crisis began.
The disruption is expected to cripple transport links and government services, such as schools. Unions in other European countries may also join the action.
We'll be tracking the protests across Europe throughout the day, as well as other key events in the financial crisis today as usual.
General strikes in Spain and Portugal will spearhead a "European Day of Action and Solidarity" called by unions in the region.
Unions in Greece and Italy also planned work stoppages and demonstrations against austerity policies, which labour leaders blame for prolonging and worsening the continent's economic crisis.
For Spain, the eurozone's fourth-largest economy where one in four workers is unemployed in a deep recession, it is the second general strike in eight months in protest against draconian budget cuts.
Spain's main CCOO and UGT unions have urged people to rally under slogans such as "They are taking away our future!", deploying pickets during the night at airports, bus and railway stations.
Activists alerted social networks of an evening rally outside the parliament in Madrid.
As much as I may agree against austerity measures, I am absolutely against this strike in Spain. The sindicatos are part of the problem, as well as the policitians from the left (not only right).
It's just pathethic how they try make the population restlessness their own cause, when sindicatos in Spain are so rotten, so hated and so obsolete.
The current political generation in Spain is a Failed generation. All of them. All of them should be convicted for high traition. Most of them are involved in big scandals, be it PP, be it PSOE, be it sindicato guys. It doesnt matter the color, the PP is as corrupt as the PSOE or any other politician in Spain. That's no news, of course, but it's just sad that, even we all are very aware, there are no alternatives.
Our president don't even speak English, you can get an idea how efficient this man is to solve our problems. Same as the former president. They are day after day on TV blaming each other, blaming stuff that happened with Franco when most of us were not even born ....
The younger generations cry not to be represented by these people without formation, any color, right, center, left ... and sadly, organizations such as the Sindicatos, leftists, etc... jump aboard the train, dynamite our legit protests and turn it all into a pathethic circus.
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