Here's another side of the story in Spanish: this is the committee of artists or whatever organized against an Allied attack on Iraq. I'm not going to translate what they say since it's the same load of Stalinist bullshit that you'd expect. What is fascinating, though, is their deep and bitter hate for the United States and everything about it.

These people are among those calling for a large antiwar demonstration for February 15 in Madrid and Barcelona. Mainstream political groups like the Socialist Party, the UGT (Socialist labor union), and even Convergence and Union are co-sponsors of this event, along with rather more leftist groups like Initiative for Catalonia and the Republican Left, and then the hard-core Communists in CCOO, the Communist labor union, the CGT, the Trotskyist labor union, the Greens, and the Stalinist United and Alternative Left. ATTAC is a sponsor, as are "La Torna", the squatters' headquarters in Gràcia, and such folks as the Antimilitarist Assembly of Catalonia and the Collective for an Alternative Left. Then, somehow, the Gracia Fiesta Commission has wound up as one of the sponsors. I thought they were in charge of shaking down shopkeepers to pay for hanging up bunting and hiring disco DJs and gadinga-dinga bands.

Then you might check out this organization called "En lluita" (In Struggle), which may not consist of more than one local wacko, but is another of the sponsors. One of their articles (here, in poorly spelled Catalan) consists of a justification and apology for violent terrorism. The guy who wrote it was in the slam, presumably for blowing something up. Ironically, these wannabe murderers are sponsoring a demonstration for peace. Or there are a bunch of anarchoindependentista wankers called Batzac who are also sponsoring the big peace march; they justify ETA terrorism as part of their incredibly boring declaration of Bakuninista principles. For the record, here's the link, but please don't read it unless you want to become seriously comatose and can't get any good pills.