nental scale against them.
The following is a declaration issued by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation following a meeting in London convened by the Foundation, and attended by a number of leading figures in the British labour movement and representatives of the major European revolutionary organisations.
At this meeting the decision was taken to convene a 'European Conference in Solidarity with the Portuguese Revolution' on 13-14 December in Paris.
In the face of strong and sustained attacks, the Portuguese working people have been able to establish a whole series of exciting initiatives in the field of workers control in the economv and popular power in the community.
These offer vital lessons to the entire European socialist and labour movement: out tney also can Tor active neip trom European trade unions and socialist movements, since their defence can by no means be accomplished from within Portuguese frontiers alone, when powerful commercial interests and various State agencies are organising on a contiThe need for international solidarity with the Portuguese working people is becoming daily more urgent, not only in the face of threats from such bodies as the CIA and NATO, neither of which should be underestimated, but also in response to svstematic measures of "destabilisation" of the Portuguese economy, by a whole series of organisations, languages, ranging from particular transnational companies to the EEC.
To meet such onslaughts, the European labour movement needs to begin to organise responses at a multiHIcity orleves. Not ony must there oe a widely based campaign against foreign imperialist intervention in Portuguese affairs, but it is also necessary to begin to develop systematic exchanges between Portuguese workers' organisations and their opposite numbers in other countries, to generate a trans-national trade union resistance to the discriminatory and hostile policies of international combines, which have been disrupting Portuguese economic development. Such exchanges are also important if we are to encourage the movement to arovice matera dia or KIOs which may be directly helpful.
The overall political movement oT solidarity with the Portuguese Revolution requires a constant flow of accurate and relevant information in all the main At the same time that they attack the Portuguese workers, the imperial powers and the trans-national companies are intervening with full force in order to prevent the achievement of genuine national nocoenoence ov we tormer Portuguese colonies, notably in Angola and Timor. In Angola, in addition to admitted CIA involvement against the MPLA, there is open military intervention based on Zaire and South Africa In Timor, Fretilin is under attack from Inconesid we suggest, tnererore, the tollowing themes for the Conference:
•betence or the rortuquese revolution against encirclement and economic sabotage by NATO and other hostile organisations. - Defence of political activists and workers' organisations; aid to workers, peasants, soldiers and sailors in their struggles for popular power and workers' control.' advantage of such coordination. The Conference deserves the broadest support by the left in this country, and every effort must be made to ensure that there is a large and representative British delegation attending it.
We propose that the Conference make detailed plans for initiating and sustaining one ronoving activitIes.
1. Development of a flow of accurate information on the Portuguese Revolution in all the countries concerned. 2. Exposure of foreign intervention against the Portuguese Revolution, either at the Government or corporation levels, and organisation of resistance to such actions on a European and international Scale 3. Organisation of political and material aid to the workers, peasant, neighbour hood and soldiers' rank-and-file committees; development of exchanges between unese booles ane orcanisations ot tne labour movement abroad; support of the right of these bodies to defend themselves by every means at their disposal. 4. Exposure of the interventions by imperial powers in Angola and Timor aid to the struggles of the MPLA and Fretilin against these attacks.
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This Conference will be an important step towards coordinating the solidarity of the European left on an international level against the sabotage and wrecking activities of imperialism and its allies, who already have the