STOP PRESS | IMGpapers 1968

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building its forces. The ultra-rightist sections of the Portuguese officers are in contact with the deposed "leader' Spinola. Not content with the bourgeois democracy of Soares, these forces wish to return to open fascist and military dictatorship.

Today the Portuguese revolution stands at a decisive turning point. The great working class upsurge of the spring and summer has produced a vanguard of tens of thousands of Portuguese workers who are committed to revolution and stand to the left of the policies of the PortBut in the crucial months of July and August this vanguard was not able to find the way to link itself to and lead the mass of the Portuguese working class. No programme was advanced which could win over or neutralise the peasants of the North and no clear concrete programme was put forward which could make a living mass reality of the Popular Assemblies in the South. The line of the. CP's support for the rotten Government Goncalves was not adequately challenged. It was these errors which produced the vanguard of the proletariat can still defeat the rightist plotters.

the rights of the workers launched -attacks, the launching of economic struggles and an economic plan which can head off the economic catastrophe which is threatening Portugal, and solve the problems of ation of armed self-defence militias by the workers and revolutionary tasks of the hour are the defence of of all the soldiers, against whom the greatest attacks will be immediately against the Government's office in Portugal.

the peasants in the North; the formof international reaction - from the CIA through the multinational companies, to the international Social Democracy - was used. The failure of the international working class to launch a similar campaign is one of the reasons why today the government of Azevedo-Soares is in NEW THREATS As the Portuguese workers turn to meet the new threats, we must ensure that the working class of the Speakers at the Portuguese solidarity demonstration adver tised above will include:

Revolutionary army captain Radio Renascenca worker JOAO FILIP (MPLA)

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unemployment _ red weekly 18 september 1975