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Garment workers shout slogans as they block a street during a protest to demand wage hike

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Το επιτόκιο δανεισμού του πορτογαλικού κράτους εκτοξεύεται, η κυβέρνηση “εθνικής ενότητας” παραπαίει (αλλά πρέπει να σωθεί). Η Πορτογαλία ετοιμάζεται για ένα σκληρό “μνημόνιο”. Αυτό το video δείχνει την ατμόσφαιρα που υπήρχε στην απεργία που έγινε στις 14 Νοέμβρη 2012, μια “πανευρωπαική” απεργία που εκεί όμως την είχαν πάρει περισσότερο στα σοβαρά από ότι εδώ (στην Ελλάδα είχε ψηφιστεί το 3ο μνημόνιο στις 7 Νοέμβρη 2012).

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Σύμφωνα με μαρτυρίες συνδικαλιστές απαίτησαν από το black bloc να βγάλει τις κουκούλες! Οι μπάτσοι τραυμάτισαν και πάλι κόσμο με πλαστικές σφαίρες και taser, έριξαν δακρυγόνα μέσα σε κλειστούς χώρους και απευθείας στα πρόσωπα διαδηλωτών

Την ίδια ώρα στη Χιλή:

Επίσης γενική απεργία με βασικά αιτήματα την αύξηση του βασικού μισθού και τα αιτήματα των φοιτητών για ακύρωση της ιδιωτικοποίησης της ανώτατης εκπαίδευσης

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Minister of Security Sergio Berni has alleged that the serious attacks on Constitución train station had to have been previously planned. After disturbances that left at least 10 in police custody, the official fired that he was convinced that the incidents were far from spontaneous.

“We are convinced that it was organised, working people do not go around with a can of petrol in their hands,” Berni affirmed on arriving at the scene.

The incidents broke out around 7pm, when the effects of strike action that has affected hundreds of thousands of commuters trying to return home became most acute.

Irate protestors in the vicinity of Constitución began to attack the station with projectiles, also directing stones and other objects at the city buses which represented the only mode of public transportation to reach the southern zone of Buenos Aires.

Police arrived swiftly on the scene, but the group of demonstators escalated their attacks with stones and other debris from a nearby building site, and began to pull down fences on the adjacent street, while the station shows clear signs of damage – including broken windows and fire damage.

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I met Mohammed Hassan Aazab earlier this year over tea at a table of young anarchists in downtown Cairo. The anniversary of the revolution had just passed with massive protests and the emergence of a Western-style black bloc that appeared to have little to do with anarchists in the city. At the time, much of the ongoing grassroots organizing was against sexual violence — in particular, the mob sexual assaults that have become synonymous with any large gathering in Tahrir. The trauma of such violence carried out against protesters was apparent in our conversation. In fact, Aazab told me that he was done with protests and politics, and had resigned himself to the dysfunction of day-to-day life in Egypt.
Then came June 30. Crowds reportedly as large as 33 million took to the streets to call for the Muslim Brotherhood to step down from power, just a year after Mohammed Morsi took office. In the pre-dawn moments of July 1, as Aazab’s phone battery dwindled steadily, I reconnected with him to chat a bit about his return to resistance.

The interview:

What’s the feeling in Cairo right now? We’re seeing reports here of the largest protests in human history.

Today, all of us worked really hard to get through the protests without violence. Everyone’s afraid a civil war could break out. The protesters gave Morsi 48 hours to step down. If that deadline passes, there’ll be a general strike. In the last five hours, 10 people were killed — four in Assiut and six in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters. The sun is coming up now. All the old revolutionaries are preparing for clashes in the streets.

I heard that the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters were torched. Is that true?

Yes. And it’s still surrounded by protesters right now.

Who called for the general strike? Are there particular unions involved?

No. The unions are totally ineffective. 

So how is the strike organized?

Tamarod [the Rebel Movement] called for the general strike. Actually, it has not been organized in advance; it has been a spontaneous development. It will work by people believing in and supporting it.

Do you think people will follow through?

Port Said will start the general strike tomorrow. I have no idea to what extent people will follow through on it, beyond that. But it’s clear people are absolutely determined to force Morsi out.

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Hundreds of police intervened after around 4,000 striking staff at Nike’s factory in the Cambodian capital clashed with colleagues, who continued working. This comes after the factory’s management refused to raise monthly salaries by US$12.

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Πριν από 20 μέρες είχε δολοφονηθεί συνδικαλιστής του AMCU.  Η δολοφονία έγινε κοντά στην πόλη Μαρικάνα, που πέρυσι η αστυνομία είχε δολοφονήσει περίπου 50 εργάτες κατά τη διάρκεια μιας απεργίας. Το φόντο πίσω από τις δολοφονίες είναι μια πολύ σκληρή σύγκρουση μεταξύ των δύο σωματείων, το NUM εμφανίζεται περισσότερο φίλα προσκείμενο στα αφεντικά και έχει στενούς κομματικούς δεσμούς με το κυβερνόν κόμμα.

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Spanish firefighters set fires in the street and scuffled with police in Barcelona on Wednesday during protests against budget cuts that they say are threatening public safety.

Hundreds of firefighters in yellow helmets and red jackets gathered in front of the Catalonia regional parliament, some letting off firecrackers and smoke bombs, and set fire to model coffins marked “public services”.

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