Franco’s government

State of alert: How the PSOE used Franco’s strike breaking tactics

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

[I intended to write this sooner but I've been rather knocked out with flu since Saturday.] The press was full of it: on the evening of December 3rd, the Spanish military ‘took over’ air traffic control towers across Spain at the request of the government. Air traffic controllers (ATCs) had, we were told, abandoned their [...]

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