(en) Portugal, Direct Action #2 - An overview about the General Strike of 14N (pt)

With increased socio-economic difficulties which we live today, the general strike which 
lasted for europe showed clearly that people are gaining more and more strength to fight 
the states and the capitalist machine. ---- In London, as in other European cities, there 
was a strong membership of workers (as) and desempregad @ s who decided to actually go to 
fight, and fight for the people is not only paralyze services but directly attack the root 
evil. ---- The actions of the police in these cities where they fought was indeed 
regrettable that, despite the ridiculous statements by Miguel Macedo (minister of 
interior) when he said that there were only a handful of professional rioters who were 
throwing stones, police arrested about 15 people, and swept the bastinado men, women, 
children and elderly from the streets near and far from the assembly, making chases 
through the streets, even to the Cais do Sodre, and leaving a trail of destruction 
wherever he went.

Already Armenian Carlos (secretary general of the CGTP) gave a
interview where you can say "shit to say to tar,
capital gain tar quiet, "declaring that finds regrettable
that people have thrown stones at the police
fight for their rights, or for the leader
union to strike is a thing only for unionists and
unionized, and the only "fight" is the correct organized
by CGTP.

The media also did a great job
from the viewpoint governmental where journalists
gave derogatory descriptions of the action of the population
for example say that this is a "scenario
nothing dignified "... "Nothing dignified" is not the
We eat and be put in the street their own habitation!!
It was good that journalists media
learn to report things without taking parties.

Here Evora by enough services were paralyzed
however the city streets were the terraces
full of people who did strike but decided to devote
this day to mass consumption, forcing a
counter-balance the effect of the strike so that even
Thank capitalists.

The CGTP parade ran as expected without
incidents and finished with a 10-minute speech
the square of the number giraldo who spoke of the strike.
After this speech unionists gathered the
flags and departed as they exchanged a few smiles
curious about the gang bat ...

The garden was made of reeds a concentration of anti-capitalist
character similar to the concentrations of movements outraged
some people joining in the evening.

In conclusion, despite the strike be an important form of struggle,
Many Voices @ s workers (as) return to work tomorrow
extremely frustrad @ s because there seems to have been achieved no
@ s of the objectives that led to the fight. Still, there is a large well-to
who participated! We insist, because one day it will be our day!

Baltazar Bresci

Call the Collective Libertarian ?vora participation in the General Strike of 14N