Portugal: 300,000 say no surrender to austerity

Green Left Online Wednesday 22nd February, 2012

More than 300,000 people marched in Lisbon against austerity on February 12. Photo from www.PCP.pt. Lisbon's vast Palace Square became People's Square on February 12. More than 300,000 workers, young people, unemployed and pensioners from across Portugal marched to voice their rejection of cutbacks inflicted by Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho's ...

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