The LCI is standing 330 candidPortugal, including candidates for immigrants in other countries. DurThis alone shows the has developed during the last year.
The LCI's programme is based on the necessity to struggle for the defence of all the gains made by the workers - the collective bargaining agreements, the increases in wages, trol and the agrarian reform. Basing itself on the struggle of the masses, the LCI has called for a democratic olution congress of all the trade unions and a national congress of the workers commissions as the best means poss Addressing itself to the reformLCI demands that they break completely with the forces of the bourgeoisie and assume their responsibthat is responsible to the trade unthe Council.
ers implicated in 11 March coup. Links Portuguese Socialist Party (PSP).
Vote likely to drop this time after open Trotskyists. left wing and a young socialist organisation - increasing tension between unes and leadership. Voted for the constitu (CP leader)!
Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).
on the cer • Mapp V In particular it calls for an end to the infamous class collaborationist pact signed by these parties with the bourgeois parties.
Given the opportunity to speak to the masses via the national radio and television networks, the LCI denounced in its first broadcast the role of the Council of the Rev- a role of repression that has already led to the deaths of a worker in Lisbon, a worker in Setubal and a worker in Beja at the hands of the para-military police, the GNR and the PSP. It declared sion. that the democracy advocated by the Council of the Revolution merely meant continued freedom for the bosses, and that their form of socialism amounted to open collaboration with international imperialism. For stating the truth in this manner, the LCI was warned by Movement for Reorganisation of the Proletarian Party (MRPP). Maoist and very right-wing. Will form alliances with bourgeois parties against 'social fascists i.e. everybody left of SP. Use: physical intimidation against other org anisations, particularly Stalinists and Portuguese Communist Party (marxist-leninist) (PCPml). Another rightwing Maoist group. Slogan: Each dep uty is a bone in the throat of Cunhal AOC/FDN. Electoral front for Permi so inat inev can nave coubt time on the networks. Non-stop attack Popular Socialist Front (FSP). Just over t per centin last elections. oman After a second broadcast, in which the LCI declared its support for all those CP and SP voters demanding that their leaders break with reactionary military figures like Jaime Neves and Pires Veloso, the Council banned the LCI from making any further broadcasts on the national radio and television net works for a period of eight days. Unable to answer the accusations made by the LCI in front of the masses, the military hierarchy knows only one road - the road of represThe ability to speak to millions may have been temporarily denied to the Portuguese Trotskyists, but the campaign goes on - in the factories, in the commissions, among the soldiers, on the land and in the streets. And throughout Europe wherever there are Portuguese workers. Vote LCI!
Left Socialist Movement (MES). 1 per cent in last elections. Centrisi current that has suffered three splits in the last vear Popular Democratic Union (UDP). 0.79 percent in last elections. One deputy, who voted for the constitution. Largest far left group but moving to the right. Slogan: Against fascism and misery. For a patriotic and independent Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT). Entered agreement with LCl to run joint campaign, but then broke it and is standing in four districts. Slogan: 'Social ists and Communists break the pact. For a Socialist Government of workers deputies.' International Communist League (LCI). 0.2 per cent in last elections. Portuguese sympathising organisation of the Fourth International.