Rate it. It is seeking in this way to guarantee its potential positions in the future government and even to strengmen mose positions The leadership of the SP prefers ations in the Constituent Assembly to the development of the power of organised in their work places and neighborhoods.
The leadership of the SP prefers its alliance with Social Democrats like Schmidt, Wilson, and Palme, loyal managers of European capitalism, to the the possibility of parliamentary combinthe workers, both in and out of unitorm extension of international solidarity with the Portuguese revolution across the borders of the bourgeois states that are now threatening to crush it.
But is that really what the hundreds.
of thousands of workers, members and sympathisers of the Socialist party, wanted when they placed their confidence in the SP? We are convinced that the answer is No. The Socialist workerswhatever illusions they may have, which we want to dissipate-desire the abolition of the capitalist system of oppression and exploitation of man by man and are sincere partisans or The constructior of a classless society in which the workers will exercise all power and benefit from all socialist liberties, which brook no comparison with the formal liberties' of bourgeois democracy.
3. The reformist and Stalinist leader ship of the Communist Party bears an important part of the responsibility for the division within the worker:
movement that we are witnessing today and that threatens to become Instead of working toward the unity of the proletarian front against the reactionary bourgeoisie, which is now raising its head, the leadership of the CP is trying to use the popular mobilisation as a pawn in its political game with the MFA.
I Sectarian • Instead of doing everything to assemble the workers and revolutionary forces where they must be assembled-in the work places and neighborhoods-the leadership of the CP is trying in a sec tarian manner to pose as the sole revolutionary Torce, pushing the worker of the SP into the arms of the right.
Communist, Socialist, and revolu -tionary workers all have the right to or ganise in their various parties to express their opinions about the ways to do battle against capitalism and the ways to 4. We will always unconditionally detend the right of workers organisa tions to hold meetings and organise demonstrations, wnatever aisaareements we may have with their objectives From this point of view, the manoeuvres of the CP leadership these past few days-into which they have vainly Tried to draw the ror me mes and ts LCI-in no way contribute to building the Workers United Front •Initiatives But the workers of the SP must not allow reaction to make use of these initiatives in order to move to the attack against workers organisations in Aveiro, Rio Maior, Lorinho, Porto de Mos, Cadaval, and Batalha rogerner with tneir class brotners thev must break the back of the fas cists by organising popular vigilance in the headquarters of the workers parties and trade unions, by uniting around the independent organs of anticapitalist struggle, and by preparing self-defence in close alliance with the soldiers and sailors. The workers must not permit the discussions and debates that are legitimate within the workers movement to facilitate the offensive of the counter-revolution The LCI addressess itself to al! the workers, and especially to the Soc lanst and communist workers: at this decisive moment proletarian unity must carry the day!
* All united in our workers comr missions, tenants commissions, united assemblies, and people's assemblies tol the construction of a National People's Assembly, organ of workers power! For a workers government!
* Against capital and reaction, pro letarian unity! Vigilance!
*Forward to the socialist revolutIon Executive Committee of the Lig Cominista Internacionalist: