西班牙南部地区市长Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo领导了一场为期20天的游行，旨在反对政府的银行救援计划、削减社会服务和强制驱逐措施，并呼吁全国银行国有化。作为左翼政党United Left Party的领导人，他在Seville的Marinaleda镇实施了合作社制度，实现了全就业和统一工资，这在失业率飙升的西班牙尤为突出。
A Spanish Robin Hood?
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They've dubbed him Robin Hood after he led raids on a supermarket
chain and distributed the looted goods to the poor. Today, Mayor
Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo and the left-wing union he leads, set
out on a 20-day march around Andalusia, the southern-most region
of the Spanish mainland.
He is calling for the government to drop plans to bail out the banks
with public money; to postpone cuts to social services and to stop
people being forcibly evicted from their homes. He's also calling for
all of Spain's banks to be nationalised.
Mr Sanchez Gordillo, from the United Left Party, is the mayor of the
town of Marinaleda in Seville, where the people work in
cooperatives, there is full employment and everyone earns the
same wage. That's quite an achievement in a country where
unemployment is soaring and is already at 40 percent among the
young.
He says the aim of the march is to unite Spain's villagers with
city-dwellers so they'll understand they're all facing the same
problems. But some mainstream politicians in the south call his
activism populist and say he's making it harder for Spain to pull out
of the economic crisis.
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dubbed
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named, labelled
raids
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break-ins, attacks
looted
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stolen
union
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organisation of workers (trade union)
bail out
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rescue from crisis by offering large amounts of money
postpone
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delay
evicted
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removed from a property
cooperatives
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organisations owned and controlled equally by the people who use its services
unite
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connect, bring together
populist
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political ideas that appeal to ordinary people's needs and wishes
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