(25 Apr 2013)
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1. Wide pan from Portuguese flag to Chaimite Armoured Personnal Carrier (used during the 1974 coup)
2. Mid of APC driver with red carnations in the foreground
3. Wide of march
4. Pan from protesters to banner reading (Portuguese) " Passos (referring to Portuguese PM) / Troika out"
5. Protester holding placard reading (Portuguese) "Turn the crisis around"
6. Wide pan of protester Maria do Carmo holding banner reading (Portuguese) "25th of April"
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Maria do Carmo, 58, protester:
"I will fight until the end. 25th of April always - fascism never more. We have to put an end to fascism."
8. Banner reading Portuguese: "No cuts, no Troika, out with the government"
9. Various of protesters marching and chanting slogans
10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jose Mendes, head of police union:
"At this point it makes every sense that we are present (in this protest) because we also represent the people. We are here to guarantee that the (Portuguese) constitution is fulfilled."
11. Various of demonstrators marching with red carnations (symbol of the 1974 revolution) and singing "Grandola Vila Morena" (Grandola, Dusky Town)
12. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) retired Coronel Vasco Lourenco, one of the leaders of the 1974 coup:
"I see the country in a bad situation and so this 25th of April, apart from evoking the liberation from fascism, has to be seen as a form of fight against the situation we are living today."
13. Various of protesters marching and chanting slogans
STORYLINE:
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Lisbon on Thursday to mark the 39th anniversary of the 1974 revolution and to demonstrate against the government austerity policies.
In 1974 mutinous troops rose up against Portugal's four-decade dictatorship.
The "Carnation Revolution" brought democracy and set Portugal on the path to European Union membership.
The demonstrators chanted slogans against the government and the so-called "Troika" of International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Commission.
They also sung a Portuguese revolutionary song from 40 years ago: "Grandola, Vila Morena" (Grandola, Dusky Town).
"I see the country in a bad situation and so this 25th of April apart from evoking the liberation from fascism has to be seen as a form of fight against the situation we are living today," said Vasco Lourenco, one of the leaders of the 1974 coup.
The Portuguese aren't short of reasons to grumble.
The country is forecast to weather a third straight year of recession in 2013.
Pay and pension cuts, coupled with tax hikes, have hurt the economy and helped push the jobless rate to 17.5 percent as the government looks for another 4 billion euro to cut.
Public hostility to cutbacks is running high as hard-hit workers balk at falling living standards.
The budget for 2013 is one of the harshest in the country's recent history.
The recent protests try to persuade the government to reverse course by jettisoning austerity policies and switching focus to state-fuelled economic growth and job creation.
Even so, while the protests have earned headline media coverage, the government shows no sign of budging.
The centre-right government, led by Pedro Passos Coelho, says it can't stop austerity because Portugal must honour a 2011 agreement that granted it a 78 billion euro bailout and demanded debt reduction.
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