On June 20, Spain was paralysed by a one-day general strike. The country's main union federations reported that more than 80% of the work force walked out. Hundreds of thousands of workers demonstrated across the country. The strike was called to protest the right-wing Spanish government's cuts to unemployment benefits. More than 100,000 people marched in Seville — where a European Union summit meeting was due to take place on June 21 — while 50,000 protested in Granada and 30,000 in Malaga. Pictured is the march in Seville.

From Green Left Weekly, June 26, 2002.
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