Class war furor amplifies throughout Europe wherein “the trenches are the streets” of major cities that have suffered the most from neoliberal policies as promulgated by the world’s monetary authorities, like the EU-IMF.
Suddenly, the “Syriza Virus” is circulating throughout Europe. The “people” have had enough austerity crammed down their throats. They’re in the streets!
Headlines depict bitterness: “Austerity Anger Sweeps from Greece to Spain as Hundreds of Thousands March Through Madrid in Support of Fledgling Radical Leftist Party,” Daily Mail, January 31, 2015. The “March for Change” converged around Madrid’s Cibeles fountain. People are fed up, tossing their support to a pony-tailed jean-wearing charismatic leader named Pablo Iglesias, the Podemos Party candidate, a 36-year-old political science professor.
The anti-establishment party Podemos (“We Can”) in Spain, formed only one year ago, is already in the lead to win Spain’s general election later this year.
In Greece, the austerity program foisted on the country by world monetary authorities these past few years caused the economy to shrink by 25% and unemployment to rise to 26%. That’s a bailout? It looks more like a knock out punch!