General strikes have been announced in Spain, Portugal, and Greece as workers try to coerce the government into cancelling new rounds of austerity measures.
Italy, Belgium, Austria, and France have all seen smaller strikes, with four cities in Italy seeing protests.
The European Trade Union Confederation is organizing the international strikes, and is hoping to get other countries to join them.
Supposedly forty unions, in twenty-three countries agreed to join them.
Violence in Spain saw over eighty people arrested, when they tried to keep buses from leaving a station. Eighteen police were amongst the dozens injured.
Transportation and electrical companies have been hardest hit by the strikes.
In Jordan people massed to protest an end to fuel subsidies.
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