WASHINGTON CAN'T DENY IT NOW: WORLD SAYS NO TO BUSH'S WAR
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Two million people, altogether, marched in London
London: credit: Indymedia.org
and in Glasgow,
Glasgow: credit: Indymedia.org
Scotland, against war and against Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush's war salesman. In Rome, where the rightist Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has buttered up to Bush, nearly 3 million protested Bush's war policy.
Rome: credit- www.punchdown.org
And in Spain right-wing Prime Minister Juan Maria Aznar--who on Feb. 17 was to meet with Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to repeat his support for U.S. policies--faced an uprising. There a total of something like 5-7 million, or over 10 percent of the people, demonstrated in 70 cities. Some 1.5 million marched in both Madrid and Barcelona, "collapsing" these cities, participants reported.
Madrid: credit- www.punchdown.org
For Blair, Aznar and Berlusconi to continue to back Bush's war puts them on a collision course with the population of their countries.
In the smaller European imperialist countries whose regimes supported the U.S. within NATO--the Nether lands, Norway, Denmark--there were also strong demonstrations of between 40,000 and 80,000 people. Protests were about this size in non-NATO Sweden and Switzerland.
In Portugal, where the Portuguese Communist Party and the union confederation (CFGT) were the main forces behind the demonstrations, some 100,000 people clogged Lisbon in the largest peace march in Portugal's history. Only the week before the Portuguese workers had held a massive protest of new anti-worker laws the rightist government is trying to put into effect.
Lisbon: credit- www.punchdown.org
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