https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Big-success-for-general-strike-in-Portugal https://internationalviewpoint.org/Big-success-for-general-strike-in-Portugal 2025-12-29T09:56:44Z text/html en Antonio Louçã Portugal Trade unions/workplace organizing <p>Portugal's minority right-wing conservative government (Democratic Alliance) planned to survive thanks to the parliamentary support, alternately, of the Socialists (PS) or the far right. It succeeded in getting the general state budget for 2026 adopted thanks to the abstention of the PS and then intended to pass a set of new employment laws with the complicity of Chega (far right). However, the general strike of 11 December has plunged this project into uncertainty.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IVP611-December-2025-" rel="directory">IVP611 - December 2025</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Portugal-+" rel="tag">Portugal</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Trade-unions-workplace-organizing-+" rel="tag">Trade unions/workplace organizing</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Socialist-Party-Set-for-Election-Comeback https://internationalviewpoint.org/Socialist-Party-Set-for-Election-Comeback 2005-02-04T00:00:00Z text/html en Antonio Louçã, João Carlos Louçã, Jorge Costa Portugal <p>On February 20 Portugal goes to the polls. Since the middle of last year, the right-wing Portuguese government has been in crisis - a crisis which led to the resignation and flight of its prime minister Durao Barroso. The Right tried to hold on with a new premier, but faced with popular indignation, the president was compelled to call elections. How is the militant left approaching this event?</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV364-February-2005-" rel="directory">IV364 - February 2005</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Portugal-+" rel="tag">Portugal</a>