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7 December 2011
Portugal: Build on the general strike action
The magnificent UK public sector workers' strike against cuts in pensions, jobs and services on 30 November was preceded by a general strike in Portugal on 24 November against austerity measures - an event barely reported in the British media...
13 April 2011
Portugal:'We won't pay their debt!'
End the dictatorship of the capitalist markets: The latest eurozone country to face a default on its sovereign debt is Portugal, whose minority government of prime minister Jose Socrates collapsed on 23 March...
Portugal Government falls amidst mass protests
30 March 2011
Portugal Government falls amidst mass protests
The collapse of the Portuguese 'Socialist Party' government of prime minister Jose Socrates came during a period of intense economic and social turmoil, writes Danny Byrne.
16 March 2011
Huge protests against job insecurity
OVER 300,000 people took to the streets in Lisbon and ten other Portuguese cities on Saturday 12 March to protest against unemployment and job insecurity...
1 December 2010
Portugal: 'Biggest strike action ever'
OVER THREE million workers downed tools in Portugal on 24 November, as a massive general strike brought the country to a halt, writes Cedric Gerome, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
16 June 2010
Portugal: Mobilisation against austerity reaches new level
WORKING CLASS people in Portugal are facing an unprecedented assault against wages, welfare provision and public services, writes Cédric Gérôme.
7 October 2009
Portugal: Voters turn to the left
"THIS IS a clear and extraordinary victory", was the first official comment from Partido Socialista (PS) Prime Minister, José Socrates, after the results of the Portuguese national elections on 27 September, writes Cedric Gerome, CWI.
19 March 2008
Portugal: Strikes and mass protests against government
MAJOR STRIKES and mass protests are taking place in Portugal against the anti-worker polices of the Partido Socialista. Francisco Raposo, from Alternativa Socialista (the CWI in Portugal) and a trade union activist in Lisbon council, spoke to Niall Mulholland...
15 December 2005
Portuguese workers strike against Blairite cuts
COUNCIL AND local government workers in Portugal are striking on 13 and 14 December against the Blairite 'socialist' government's vicious attacks on their rights, working conditions and living standards...
24 April 2004
A HALF-CENTURY of fascist rule was swept aside in a day. It started at 12.25 am on Thursday 25 April 1974 when the rebel song, Grandola Vila Morena, played on the radio...
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