Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Spain: Local and regional elections show mass dissatisfaction

Not to put too fine a point on it but People's Party is a better translation for Partido Popular than Popular Party. It is not populist in any sense. (Nor, of course, is it a people's party either.) As WSWS points out, this party has a direct lineage from Franco's goon squad/political party. It is Catholic, conservative, capitalist, authoritarian, legitimist etc.

Other than this minor caveat, this is an excellent synopsis. I just hope that someday, the WSWS will manage to complete an article without invoking their divinity--Trotsky, but I'm not optimistic.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/spai-m25.shtml