© AAPThousands of people in Portugal took to the streets in 2013 to call for an end to salary cuts.
In the capital Lisbon, crowds marched towards parliament chanting slogans such as "the street is ours!" and "stop the robbery!"
Pensioner Abel Pontes, pensioner said of the government: "They already announced that next January they'll cut my pension by 10 percent. They increased my rent. Obviously, we need to protest!"
Manuela Raia spoke out for disabled people's rights, saying: "I feel angry about this government's social policy. I am here because of the cuts to pensions. I am here because of the miserable benefits that disabled people receive."
Demonstrators protest Portugal crisis cuts
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Thousands of people have protested in Portugal against salary cuts and public sector reforms imposed by the government under the country's international bailout deal.
Crowds rallied in the old centre of the capital Lisbon and marched towards parliament, while rallies were also staged in the northern city of Porto and 12 other towns, in demonstrations called by a citizens' collective known as "Get lost, troika".
The word troika refers to the three international bodies that agreed Portugal's 78-billion euro ($A112-billion) rescue deal in 2011 - the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund.
In return for the bailout money to prevent the indebted country from financial collapse, the troika demanded economic reforms to get Portugal's public deficit down to four per cent of output by 2014.
Protesters in Lisbon on Saturday waved banners and signs calling for the government to resign and for a referendum on euro membership, plus messages such as "No to the troika, no to hunger".
"The only aim of the austerity policies is to cut salaries and pensions, impoverish the population and dismantle the public services," the citizens' collective that organised the demonstrations said in a statement.
The group had already mobilised massive street protests in September 2012 and in March this year, and called Saturday's demos in protest at the budget announced by the government for 2014.
The rally in Lisbon at the start appeared much smaller however than those previous two, which drew hundreds of thousands of people.
Portugal's conservative government this month said it would further cut public sector salaries and pensions as part of a budget that aims to save another 3.9 billion euros.
Labour unions have called a strike by public sector workers for November 8, among various other demonstrations and stoppages.
Thought it is true that understanding of psychopathology is important then large protest can be very useful and force the psychopaths in power to change their policies. It is only once the protests gets violent that the government use it as a justification to use force. Hence the great efforts to infiltrate people movements with agent provocateurs.