Ten years ago began the process of workers' struggles that today has its vanguard yellow vests

Belgian workers of Ford, on strike during 2008

By Juan Giglio

Ten years ago, after the fall of the Lehman Brothers, began a generalized reaction against the plans of "bailout" of the banks -imposed by the European governments- by the workers of Belgium and the majority of the EU countries. This process, which had the Greek workers at their forefront, took a leap with the insurrection of the mass movement of North Africa -"Arab Spring"- like the one that knocked down the Mubarak dictatorship in Egypt. The struggle of the "yellow vests" and those that are leading the workers and the peoples of Iraq and Iran mark a thread of continuity with this process, which has revolutionary characteristics, (Read note on yellow vests in English)