Socialist Outlook

Socialist Viewpoint, International, Socialist Outlook and their supplements, 1984–2002

Seville protests show the way

· Socialist Outlook no. 56, Summer 2002 · 378 words

reports from Seville protestors mostly from Andalusia but S7Ca0S across of Europe marched party mood on the hot summer evening of the last day the The Aznar government and the mainstream media tried claim there were only 20,000 - but no one believed Though the protests were big those Barcelona which marked the beginning Presidency, they were bigger than expected.

They an upbeat close to three days of protest against the Europe of Capital and War represented by We Aznar and his fellow leaders barricaded inside their airconditioned No windows were smashed and the only things that down the but showers of water from hosepipes of residents the demonstrators desperate to cool down blazing runately the TOPOSIS wove the streets chanting the slogans of tae sevic social forum: "Another world is possible against the Europe of capital and war" and "no person is slogan of European Social Forum Barcelona, Madrid estimates suggest was particularly marched) and Seville, with important given the focus of smaller echoes in many other ing still higher the walls of In many parts of the counFortress Europe, though for- try, the pickets were accomanied with cazcrolas - the forward by banging of pots that has been Aznar and Blair were not made popular from the mass movement in Argentina.

The tone of the resistance consecutie was set on Thursday when millions of workers brought demonstration was just one most of the Spanish State to a sign that alliance between standstill. The day saw mas- organised labour and youth sec auge acmonstradons in is asserting itself as the backlike that of the migrants workers in Spain and the solidarity occupation of the church in Seville by anticapitalist protestors need to be strengthened. in the meantime, the big question facing the European Union is how to deal with impending enlargement - and what constitutional changes to make to streamline decision making in its wake. Structures that had just (where bone of the anti globalisation 500,000 movement. This was clear in Genoa, in Barcelona and now This achievement given that one and their friends September 11 was to silence trade In final Outlook and dissipate the anti-globalisation movement together. Instead we have become remarkable as a movement against both war and capital, after with organised labour.

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