This is borne out by developments in other areas of the working class movement since 25 November. While there has been a general retreat from open militancy to a more cautious wait-and-see attitude, the response has vaneu wuely Hom place to place.
A clear downturn, for instance, could be seen in the elections for a programme of workers control in the Setenave shipyard in Setubal. The list put forward by the Communist Party won an overall majority with 850 votes; that put forward by the far left - Popular Democratic Union (UDP), Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat (PRP), and Internationalist Communist League (LCI)
• won 410 votes; while the Socialist Party got 250 votes.
With 402 blank votes, that made only 1,911 workers voting as against 2,093 who didn't take any part in une proceeungs DESERVED Of course, such a turn out would be quite respectable in most circumstances. But Setenave has the justly deserved reputaion of being the 'red bastion' of the industrial belt around Lisbon, and before 25 November it was the various tendencies of the revolutionary left which made most of the running there.
The secretariat of struggle in Setubal, made up of delegates from more than twenty workers' and neighbourhood commissions in the tea, has been affected in much the