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People Start Revolting In Iceland: Summary Of Action News In English
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Tuesday December 23, 2008 00:18 by bjoerndaeler häagmundson
- from Greece to Iceland and around the planet our hearts are burning - Things are more and more fucked here in Iceland. Iceland's three main banks have been nationalised and the tax payer now has to pay off the loans. The country is broke and the IMF have been called in and have imposed their usual austerity measures. Unemployment is growing rapidly along with the threat of people losing their homes. Alongside this the population is growing increasingly angry.
For more than 2 months people have gathered weekly in a park in front of the parliament. The first protests demanded that the government would “break it’s silence” about the current situation. People were tired of not even being told about what was happening and what the government was doing about it.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6Protests are growing by the week in Iceland as the situation deterioates further
Thanks for this report. We are also trying to follow the situation in Iceland here and would appreciate any more information available.
http://machinenation.forumakers.com/world-politics-and-...55512
Hopefully irish people will come to their senses soon and give politicians, bankers, capitalists and the general estaiblishment a piece of their mind like the good people of Iceland!!
How refreshing it is to see that in both Greece and Iceland, it's ordinary people on the streets taking back their respective countries from the bankers, the gangster capitalists and the bureaucrats. The powers that be can't just pin the trouble on loony anarchists and their irrelevant cousins on the far left, because these ideologues simply have no truck with ordinary people. This is why what's happening in Greece and Iceland isn't making the mainstream media over here.
Iceland's coalition government collapsed today under the pressures of a financial meltdown and prime minister Geir Haarde said he would hand in his resignation to president Olafur Ragnar Grimsson.
"I really regret that we could not continue with this coalition. I believe that that would have been the best result," he told reporters at parliament.
Foreign minister Ingibjorg Gisladottir, the Social Democrat leader who had been considered a potential replacement for Mr Haarde, announced she would not seek to be prime minister and would take a leave of absence for one or two months...
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0126/...3.htm
Iceland's coalition government falls apart
http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0126/iceland.html
Question: What is the difference between Iceland and Ireland?
Answer: One letter and six months.
This common ‘joke’ in Irish business circles has now moved dangerously close to reality. The Financial Times printed a special feature about the Irish economy under the apt headline “things fall apart” and the Wall Street Journal reported that “questions over Ireland’s solvency are becoming increasingly urgent’.
From latest Socialist worker party newsletter, http://swp.ie/