MADRID (AP) — Trade unions and anti-austerity groups angryat the effects of the financial crisis
have held protest marches in 55Spanish cities, calling on the government to re-think its policy ofcutbacks
in public services, education and health care.Thousandsmarched to Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square — many
wearing white medicalscrubs — carrying banners reading "Health care is not for
sale."Saturday’speaceful protests coincided with anti-fascist gatherings, including oneoutside El Valle
de los Caidos, a giant mausoleum north of Madrid wheredictator Gen. Francisco Franco is buried.Many
protesters carriedtri-color republican flags in commemoration of thedemocratically-elected government that
Franco overthrew with the help ofNazi Germany and Fascist Italy in an internecine 1936-1939 civil
war.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rightsreserved. This material may not be published, broadcast,
rewritten orredistributed.MADRID (AP) — Trade unions and anti-austerity groups angryat the effects of the
financial crisis have held protest marches in 55Spanish cities, calling on the government to re-think its
policy ofcutbacks in public services, education and health care.Thousandsmarched to Madrid’s Puerta del Sol
square — many wearing white medicalscrubs — carrying banners reading "Health care is not for
sale."Saturday’speaceful protests coincided with anti-fascist gatherings, including oneoutside El Valle
de los Caidos, a giant mausoleum north of Madrid wheredictator Gen. Francisco Franco is buried.Many
protesters carriedtri-color republican flags in commemoration of thedemocratically-elected government that
Franco overthrew with the help ofNazi Germany and Fascist Italy in an internecine 1936-1939 civil
war.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rightsreserved. This material may not be published, broadcast,
rewritten orredistributed.