THE INTERNATIONAL RULING CLASS i not going to take events Ike those now going on in Portugal lying down, It has long been a standing rule of capitalist thinking that whatever might happen elsewhere in the world, Western Europe is sacrosanct terroritory for capitalism.
The prospect of the Portuguese working class taking matters into their own hands is ther refore likel to be met with an even more ferocious campaign of slander and conspiracy than was the upsurge of the Chilean workers and peasants under the Allende Government.
One sign chat the more class-conscious spokesman of Chis country's capetalists are already moving in this direction came with Monday's Daily Exprest. There, no less a person than Jobn Ellison, Forein Editor of the Express, pontificates at length on the dangers of the Portuguese virus, and proposes a possible cure and rutless action:
are all set up, If the fist is to fall in Portugal, there a no telling where the line might end... Britain takes about 23 per cent of Portugal's total exports. The new regime in Labon Southern Europe.' The policy be calls for is a switt 'The dominoes in southern Europe is even more vulnerable over its econwas in Chile.,.It might be much eas jer fand a good deal lew painful all round) to clip Lisbon's revolutionary ardour now than face the irrevocable consequences of NATO's collapse in The British workers' movement must take Ellison's exhortations to his capitalist clienteie as a flashing red light it must put us on alert to act decisively whenever the international ruling claas begins its coordinated offensive to block our Portug lese comrades strugele for an end to capitalse tyranny and exploitation
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