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Portugal is doing a general strike today for the first time in 12 years

https://marxist.com/portugal-long-live-the-general-strike.htm

apologies for the trot article, but they were the top result I saw in English that was free and not the BBC

looks like the government is trying to pass a 50-hour work week, lift a ban on outsourcing, end a law that forces rehiring workers who were wrongfully terminated, and expand the list of services that must remain open during strikes amongst over 100 changes

Ithorian [comrade/them] - 2day

Portuguese Communist Party article on it. I'm in Lisbon this week so I'm ready to get my class solidarity on! The main demonstration starts in a couple hours.

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UmmmCheckPlease [he/him, comrade/them] - 1day

Godspeed comrade rat-salute-2

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JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them] - 1day

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10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL [any, any] - 1day

It's only a national general strike. We should do a general general strike.

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Moidialectica [he/him, comrade/them] - 2day

Why are Trotskyist articles bad? Would you not prefer it over liberal ones?

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PeeOnYou [he/him] - 1day

i do prefer them over liberal articles for sure

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ufcwthrowaway [none/use name] - 1day

Imo they tend to be even more distorted than liberal ones. Like, you can be reading a trot article and they'll tell you why a thing is bad based on a line struggle from the 70s, but they won't tell you what actually happened. I'll take liberals who lie through emphasis but at least usually tell you what actually happened and have a bias that maps into modern political lines I'm more familiar with.

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Coolkidbozzy [he/him] - 1day

I do, that's why I skipped the bbc

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