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.

A Capitalist doll was hung at a recent protest in Iceland

Hey my friends

Things are more and more fucked here in Iceland.
If you want to see some of it in English, there is a translation here:
http://aftaka.org/2008/12/12/direct-action-in-iceland/

Taking some quotes from the above article, it is clear the mood is beginning to change rather quickly in Iceland as evidenced during the Weekly demonstrations

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.

But soon people realized that it was not enough to ask the government to speak, so the protests took up another and more radical demand: the resign of the government and new elections as soon as possible. The government has completely ignored this demand and people are getting more and more angry.

Anarchists and other radical leftists have come to most of the protests, but not to protest against the economic situation, not to ask the government for solutions, not to ask for new elections, not to ask any member of the government or parliament or any other official institution to do anything to “solve” the crisis we are facing. But to spread anarchistic and anti-capitalistic information among people, analyse the problems of authority and capitalism and to encourage Icelandic people to take direct action against the forces of corruption.

Since that time the protests have been growing bigger and at a recent one the numbers swelled to 10,000. This may not seem a lot by European standards but when you consider the population of Iceland is only 320,000, it gives you some idea.

There is also a new video here
http://mbl.is/mm/frettir/sjonvarp/21692/
hehe

people broke into the central bank and in the financial supervisory