Spanish students against NATO

Thousands of students participated yesterday (April 20th) in Spain in a national day of action against the bombing of Yugoslavia. The protest was called by the Students Union (Sindicato de Estudiantes). Thousands of students participated in meetings in the schools to discuss a resolution drafted by the Students Union opposing NATO's intervention against Yugoslavia and proposing a Socialist Federation of the Balkans with full democratic rights for all nationalities as the only way forward for the people of the Balkans.

Under the slogan of "Not a bullet, not a soldier, not a cent for the imperialist war" hundreds of students also participated in rallies all over Spain. At the moment of writing this not the information is still coming, but we can already report that 1,500 students participated in the rally in Madrid, 500 participated in Barcelona, 400 in Tarragona, 100 in Seville, 150 in Granada, 150 in Malaga, 50 in Vitoria and similar numbers in Guadalajara, Marbella and Aviles.

The Students Union is calling for the setting up of anti-war committees in every school and faculty to organise opposition to NATO's bobming of Yugoslavia, which as they say "it is not for humanitarian reasons and will not solve any of the problems of the people of the Balkans"

The Spanish Students Union has a proud record of struggle and a long history of internationalism and anti-imperialism having organised in the past campaigns in solidarity with the struggle of workers and youth in South Africa (during the partheid regime), with the Palestinian intifada, with the Mexican youth and is now organising a speaking tour with an Indonesian socialist in solidarity with the Indonesian revolution.