Madrid Demonstration Against Capitalism

The following was taken from the newspaper called Granma.

MADRID, May 16.— A massive demonstration was held in the Spanish capital today in an attempt to defend millions of workers punished by cyclical crisis and express their rejection of the capitalist system, reported Prensa Latina.

Some demonstrators, as members of the solidarity movements with Cuba, called for the end of the US blockade as well as for the release of the five Cubans imprisoned in the US, reported Cubadebate.

Convened by the Fourth Peoples´ Summit Linking Alternatives, tens of thousands of people, under the slogan "Against the Europe of Capital, War and Crisis", passed along the Plaza de Cibeles to the Puerta del Sol in Madrid.

The protest of Linking Alternatives coincided with another called by the General Labour Confederation (CGT) in Spain in order to denounce the adjustment plan performed by the Spanish government, which is very similar to that being adopted in Greece.

Either way, both participants in the Linking Alternatives Summit and the CGT members joined together into a common complaint: to condemn the European neoliberal policies and their submission to the markets, to the detriment of workers rights.