Highlights of a general strike report from CNT Madrid
00:00h The start of the strike. CNT militants head to the workplaces and the neighbourhoods.
00:15 Vallecas. The presence of a massive number of police, including plainclothes, taking people’s details, makes it difficult for people to picket the postal service and other places.
00:30 Police charge in Plaza de Santa Ana. A CNT comrade is injured by the police and has to go to hospital, needs stitches. Several arrests.
01:15 Mercamadrid. A large number of CNT pickets try to stop lorries leaving. They succeed at first, but a combination of police numbers and the passivity of the pickets from the reformist unions means lorries leave.
05:00h Entrevias depot. A picket of 100 people, a third of them members of the CNT. An enormous police presence, including horses, makes it difficult to picket. The few buses which leave have an escort of police motorbikes.
08:00h National Library. The police counterpicket arrives. A scab attacks various CNT pickets. The police, instead of taking his name, escort him into the building.
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