The struggle to felease Major Diniz de Almeida (of the left-wing RALIS regiment) and all the others held in the Cusoias prison near Oporto; to lift the censorship; and to stop the disarming of civilians - these must be the first tasks. Through this combination of struggles for the immediate needs of the masses, the vanguard can overcome its isolation, and the workers' commissions and other organs of workers democracy can be strengthened and Thirdly, the situation in Spain works entirely in favour of the Portuguese revolution. The demonstrations for the release of prisoners in Madrid, Barcelona and San Sebastian are the first sign of what is to come. An upheaval in Spain can alter everything in Portugal. It would deprive the right of their military support in the north, the fascists of their main bases, the right of its political initiative. To gain time through the defensive struggle in order to receive the gigantic reinforcement which Spain will mean is now a If Portuguese revolutionaries and the working class can today undertake these defensive tasks, then all is very far from being lost. The Portuguese revolution has escaped from this defeat with far less repression and other harmful consequences than many other revostress the need for the workers and peasants to take a cut in their living standards to solve the crisis. However it does also contain more than a grain of truth. Historically Portugal has been the weakest of the western capitalist economies and is suffering severely under the blows of the world recession. But the depth of the Portuguese crisis is also the responsibility of the multinational corporations, who have systematically sabotaged the economy.
Red Weekly1975Red Weekly No. 128, 4 December 1975
Spain
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