Protests Redux: Spanish unions plan general strike after more mass rallies

Source: RT

Spanish labor unions have threatened a national strike unless the country’s right-wing government cancels announced austerity cuts, in the wake of a second day of national mass protests.

Some 60,000 demonstrators flooded the center of Madrid, during the biggest of more than 50 union-backed protests across the country.

Their banners read "Their plunder, my crisis" and “No more unemployment, no more cuts.”

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy recently announced that the government would be undertaking an extra 13 billion euros of cuts in 2013.

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