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The anti-austerity movement in Spain, also referred to as the 15-M Movement (Spanish: Movimiento 15-M), [2] and the Indignados Movement, [3] was a series of protests, demonstrations, and occupations against austerity policies in Spain that began around the local and regional elections of 2011 and 2012.
The anti-austerity movement has responded by giving rise to a wave of anti-establishment political parties. [2] Opposition to austerity is seen as the force behind the rise of Podemos in Spain, Italy's Five Star Movement and the Syriza party in Greece.
The 2012 Asturian miners' strike was an industrial dispute involving more than 8,000 coal miners in the Spanish autonomous community of Asturias. [1] The geographer David Featherstone has described the strike as "one of the most dramatic forms of anti-austerity protest to emerge in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–08."
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Podemos (Spanish:, translated in English as "We Can") [c] is a left-wing [14] [15] [16] to far-left [17] [18] [19] political party in Spain.Founded in January 2014 by the political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión as part of the anti-austerity movement in Spain, [20] [21] the party is currently led by Secretary-general Ione Belarra.
The 2012 European general strike, [1] first known as the 2012 Iberian Strike, [2] [3] was a general strike called initially by Spanish and Portuguese unions on 14 November 2012, to whom several unions and collectives from other European countries joined in strike or other form of protests.
Investors have bid up the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) by 0.6% and the S&P 500 (INDEX: ^GSPC) by 1.02% on hopes that Spain and Austerity in Spain and Stimulus in China Push Markets ...