Portugal - the spell is broken, JOÃO CAMARGO (Counterfire)

2012-09-27 · first published in marxsite · 134 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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Portugal has seen the biggest protests since the 1974 revolution - the people have unequivocally said no to the troika and no to austerity

It was the biggest protest in Portugal since the revolution in 1974, signalling that the consensus over austerity is long gone and buried. The demonstration on 15 September marked the end of an era. The signal was decisive: the mass of the people went into the streets shouting 'IMF out of here', 'government resignation now' and 'we want our lives!'.

The capture this was recovered from