News from Spain and Portugal

national | miscellaneous | news report Sunday June 23, 2002 15:00 by hs - socialist party

On the same day as the general strike that rocked Spain, Portuguese workers took to the streets all over the country saying, "No to attacks on our class". Spain: "The demonstrations yesterday were massive. Estimations say there were 200,000 in Seville. In Barcelona it was been between 500,000 and 600,000 and in Madrid there were another 500,000! In the whole country there were 3 million people on the streets. In a lot of cities these were the biggest demonstrations since the fall of the Franco dictatorship in the 1970's! for full articles go to : http://www.worldsocialist-cwi.org/