The ruling marked "a transformative triumph decades in the making, a momentous victory for freedom, equality, inclusion, and above all, love," said Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry.
Failure of Global Elite's Austerity
The New York Times reported that "A backlash against austerity has helped crack the club of parties that had a lock on politics, and ushered in a new generation of challengers."
And in Greece, Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, noted, voters "rejected austerity in January and again overwhelmingly in June in a nationwide referendum, only to get it rammed down their throats by the European authorities. But Greece's economy is less than 2 percent of the eurozone, and its new leaders from the leftist Syriza party -- although they vociferously opposed austerity -- made it clear that they would never leave the euro, no matter how much they were punished."
In that country, still in the grips of "financial terrorism by the European authorities," as Weisbrot put it, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, both cheered the outcome in Spain, with Varoufakis calling it "a small step that may turn into a large faultline shattering the eurozone's crisis-denial and austerian contempt for democracy." Tsipras for his part, tweeted: "austerity has now been defeated politically in Spain, as well."
The UK's Corbyn went to Portugal following their election, and said, "We're building an anti-austerity coalition across Europe."
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