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Portuguese workers protest cuts
Published Nov 17, 2011 9:31 PM
Warming up for a general strike on Nov. 24, workers held two great and combative demonstrations in Lisbon, Portugal, on Nov. 12. They were protesting the same Europe-wide capitalist offensive that in Italy and Greece has taken the form of installing banker-led governments. More than 180,000 teachers, along with local and central government workers of all kinds, marched down the main boulevard one day after the Assembly approved most of a brutal new anti-worker national budget. In addition, some 10,000 troops, and non-commissioned and commissioned officers marched from Rossio Square in downtown Lisbon to the Ministry of Finance making similar demands against cutbacks and expressing a determination to defend the Portuguese Constitution. (www.pcp.pt)
— John Catalinotto
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