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		<title>7 reasons why Greece is going on strike this week</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/11/04/7-reasons-why-greece-is-going-on-strike-this-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greek workers will hold a 24-hour strike this week to protest against austerity measures and public sector layoffs demanded by the country’s international lenders, led by the IMF-ECB-EU &#8216;Troika&#8217;. Greece’s public and private sector unions ADEDY and GSEE will launch a 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, November 6th 2013. Here&#8217;s seven reasons why they will &#8230; <a href="/2013/11/04/7-reasons-why-greece-is-going-on-strike-this-week/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7442&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syriza: We&#8217;ll reverse the Government-Troika job cuts</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/19/syrizas-alternatives-to-job-cuts-and-austerity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Greek government this week passed measures slashing thousands of public sector jobs. Argiris Panagopoulos, correspondent of Il Manifesto newspaper interviewed Panos Lamprou, a leading member of the opposition Syriza party, on this latest round of Troika-inspired austerity, dubbed a ‘mini-memorandum’. Lamprou, a member of the Secretariat to SYRIZA’s Central Committee, also talks about alternative &#8230; <a href="/2013/07/19/syrizas-alternatives-to-job-cuts-and-austerity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7138&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Greece is slashing public sector jobs</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/18/why-greece-is-slashing-public-sector-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid much protest in the streets, the Greek government last night passed a law firing thousands of public sector workers. Twenty five thousand public servants &#8211; mainly teachers and municipal police &#8211; will be placed in a layoff scheme by the end of 2013. They have eight months to find another position or get laid &#8230; <a href="/2013/07/18/why-greece-is-slashing-public-sector-jobs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7133&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Troika destroys 500,000 jobs in Portugal</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/17/troika-destroys-500000-jobs-in-portugal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The austerity measures demanded by the Troika have destroyed half a million jobs in Portugal. This year, Portugal will have fewer people employed than in 1960. And in 2014 the situation is expected to worsen further. According to Diário de Notícias newspaper, reporting on figures published in the Summer 2013 Economic Bulletin of the Bank of Portugal, &#8216;already this &#8230; <a href="/2013/07/17/troika-destroys-500000-jobs-in-portugal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7126&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s the Troika really bailing out?</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/08/whos-really-being-bailed-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Troika prepares to ok the next tranche of its &#8216;bailout&#8217; to Greece, here&#8217;s a reminder about who&#8217;s actually being bailed out. Check out this recent research by Attac<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7040&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are we Portuguese living beyond our means?</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/06/03/are-we-portuguese-living-beyond-our-means/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jose Manuel Pureza If there wasn&#8217;t the Troika there wouldn&#8217;t be money to pay salaries or pensions – this assertion is repeated ad nauseam by the heralds of foreign intervention in Portugal. And this is immediately followed by the argument that this is because we have long been living beyond our means, squandering money &#8230; <a href="/2013/06/03/are-we-portuguese-living-beyond-our-means/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6921&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The People United Against the Troika</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/06/01/united-against-the-troika/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 08:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Esther Vivas Who is the Troika? A year ago few knew the answer to this question. We knew it by reference, to its stay in Greece, and it wasn&#8217;t good. The Troika was synonymous with austerity, adjustment and cuts, hardship, hunger and unemployment. But it was not until the arrival in Spain of the &#8230; <a href="/2013/06/01/united-against-the-troika/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6904&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The great crime scene of Greece</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/28/the-great-crime-scene-of-greece/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t too difficult picking out the Fat Bastard in the crowd of Russian models, craven moochers and media mavens. Besides, he and I were both desperate for coffee and heading for the same empty urn. By Greg Palast Read on in the Morning Star<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6880&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Troika&#8217;s Men in Black and the Crime of Organised Money</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/27/the-troikas-men-in-black-and-the-crime-of-organised-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 22:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing to force states to finance themselves at high-interest rates is just a strategy to justify wage control, the privatisation of public services and, ultimately, to enslave peoples, says Juan Torres Lopez Spain has once again received a visit from the so-called Men in Black, the Troika inspectors, coming to elucidate if all is going as &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/27/the-troikas-men-in-black-and-the-crime-of-organised-money/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6874&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portugal&#8217;s Socialist Party, between illusion and cowardice</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/04/30/portugals-socialist-party-between-illusion-and-cowardice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portugal&#8217;s Socialist Party is now 40 years old. But what happened to the &#8216;socialism&#8217;? asks Joao Mineiro The socialist party, founded in April 1973, has transformed itself its a strange thing called &#8220;democratic socialism&#8221;, a kind of third way, in which the project of the socialization of the economy, building the popular movement and the ambition &#8230; <a href="/2013/04/30/portugals-socialist-party-between-illusion-and-cowardice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6714&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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