Portugal

May Day protests reflect depth of European crisis

Will the traditional May Day workers’ demonstrations in Europe evolve into a gigantic anti-austerity protest this year? Massive protests are…

May 1, 2013

Portugal’s railroad workers strike

To get a loan from the Euro Zone and the International Monetary Fund, the Portugal rightist government was only too…

January 3, 2013

Europe rocked by workers’ resistance

Millions of people struck Nov. 14, and hundreds of thousands more poured into the streets in an unprecedented, coordinated general…

November 25, 2012

‘NO’ to austerity

The story is the same across Europe. Governments are imposing devastating austerity measures in the service of the big banks…

October 24, 2012

Las arterias endurecidas de un sistema moribundo

El dinero es la sangre vital del capitalismo. Cada vez más los banqueros lo mantienen encerrado en sus bóvedas y…

October 11, 2012

European workers take streets to resist austerity

Hardening arteries of a dying system Money is the lifeblood of capitalism.More and more, the bankers have it locked away…

October 4, 2012

1 million Portuguese shout: ‘Fxxk the troika!’

Some 1 million of Portugal’s 11 million people held massive marches in Lisbon, Oporto and 38 other cities and towns…

September 24, 2012