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"Madam President, the steadfast and vigorous struggle by the workers and the Portuguese people is a significant response to the aggressive agenda of the European Union, the IMF and the IMF’s Portuguese toadies. What is more, that response ought to be echoed here in this Parliament, since it is this Parliament that underwrites many of the measures which this aggressive agenda entails.
The general strike planned for 24 November will be a high point in this struggle, a culmination of the various demonstrations, protests and sector-wide stoppages of these past days. On Saturday, more than 180 000 public service workers took to the streets of Lisbon. In the fields of education, health care, transport, public security and defence, and out in the countryside too, workers, small and medium-sized entrepreneurs and ordinary people swelled an enormous tide of protest against generalised impoverishment, against robbery from workers and pensioners, and against the plundering of national resources.
The general strike on the 24th will not mark an end to this struggle, but will move it to a higher level, since it is also a struggle in defence of democracy: democracy which is gravely mutilated and deformed when a people is deprived of the basic means for deciding its own fate and determining its collective future, as is happening under the iniquitous privatisation programme constituted by this troika’s aggression pact."@en1
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