[From the Fracción Trotskista, http://www.ft-ci.org –– Unofficial translation]

Spanish state: Labor reform, General strike!

By Diego Dalai
Thursday, March 15, 2012

This March 11, big mobilizations took place in 60 cities of the entire Spanish state. Called by the big unions UGT and CCOO [Comisiones Obreras], they brought together hundreds of thousands of people, turning into a new demonstration in the streets of the workers' willingness to confront...

The IWW says:
General Strike on May Day, Tuesday, May 1

What we confront as workers, right now

Working people in the US face a constant attack on our standard of living, a fact that can easily be seen from the government's own figures. Among the difficulties we confront are a current 8.3% official rate of unemployment, that is, 12.7 million workers without jobs, lacking the resources to feed their families. Throughout 2011, unemployment exceeded 13 million workers,...