“The strikeis expected to cause near or total shutdowns of the four most debt-batteredcountries—Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece—as all major unions march to opposedevastating cuts in salaries, pensions, benefits and social services, meanwhileprotesting tax hikes and harsh labor reforms. There will be solidarity marcheselsewhere.
Just ascapital moves freely across national boundaries, a new borderlessness ofprotest is now waiting there to meet it—which could be a game-changer…”
EuropeFaces a Multi-National General Strike Against Austerity
by Michael LevitinAusterity has spawned generalstrikes in individual countries across the troubled European Union. But this weekmay see something to add to the union’s tensions: a coordinated, multi-nationalmega-strike. Organized labor plans a general strike against the E.U.’sausterity policies, borderless and spanning the south of the continent. Withmore than 25 million people out of work, Europe’s biggest unions have vowed tolead marches and demonstrations on Nov. 14 that unite opposition parties,activist movements like Spain’s M15 and a growing sea of unemployed tochallenge their national governments, banking leaders, the IMF and EUpolicymakers to abandon austerity cuts ahead of a high-stakes budgetmeeting inBrussels later this month.
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