Militanter Klassenkampf - Bergarbeiter_innen-Streik in Asturien

Last summer, Asturies, a region in the mountains of northern Spain, became the focus of international media for a few weeks. The powerful unions who controlled the coal mines launched their members to a general strike to fight back the government austerity measures that meant the extinction of the mining sector in Spain, in less than two years. Along several weeks, we could see on TV images of a fierce struggle from a group of workers in defense of their jobs and their communities who was hardly surprised by a government decided to put an end to a way of life. The real weight of that struggle, was carried by a small group of workers who were betrayed by their leaders, workers that each day that passed were more surrounded, isolated and overwhelmed, but who refused to surrender. In this workshop, you will be able to know a little bit more about what lies beyond the images of miners launching rockets, the almost 200 protesters who were arrested, the network of lies and manipulations that finally grounded the conflict and the aftermath of a struggle who threatens to wake up again this summer of 2013.

Speakers: activists from the miner strike in Asturies