the measures sought out. Above all complete massive solid arity must be organised with the miners or any other group going into struggle against the wage norm.
The International Marxist Group will be fighting for its own policies as a solution to the crisis - for ending of the CBI-TUC talks, rejection of the Social Contract, a sliding scale of wages, nationalisation of the monopolies, and for workers control. United action must be stepped up on every area of the capitalist crisis - on abortion, on Ireland, on Portugal, in defence of the health service. But the most burning issue is to create united action against the Healey measures. If this is done, the burning resentment of millions against the effects of Wilson's attacks will be turned into a gigantic force which will revolutionise the political situation and begin to carve out a socialist solution.
NO TO ANY FORM OF INCOMES POLICY UNDER CAPITALISM!
FOR A WORKERS UNITED FRONT AGAINST THE HEALEY MEASURES!
THE LEFT MUST UNITE FOR MASS ACTION AGAINST WILSON'S CAPITALIST POLICIES!
IMG's Programme for the Crisis-see page 3.
On the surface it would seem that the tempo of events in Portugal has lowed somewhat-since the hectic weeks of May.
But in reality the situation is becoming frankly catastrophic. The rate of inflation for the month of May alone was 7.5 per cent. Prices are shooting upwards, and the Government has been running from the president of the World Bank to the Socialist delegation at the European Parliament (headed by a leader of the German SPD) in search of supplementary credits and further extensions on the many repayments already due.
The Government is working on a three-month plan of ten urgent measures designed to 'boost national production' by promoting 'selective investment and absolutely necessary' restructuring. A plan to safeguard jobs has also just been announced, it would create 34,000 new jobs. Even supposing that that succeeds, there still remains the problem of the 300,000 regis: tered unemployed; to which will soon be added large numbers of emigrant workers, who have lost their jobs because of the European recession and are now on their way home. CISMO/A. red weekly 10 july 1975 UM PAIS 12 CONSTRus 106060 ¡BLICA NÃO SE CALARA!
HO 160000gles. They feel a real need to protect their gains, not against the military hierarchy - in whom they still have many illusions - but against the right wing, which is redoubling its attempts at sabotage.
The glass workers of Marinha Grande, for instance, declare that *the workers who have had military training, which they can put to use in the event of armed attack by the forces of reaction, have a much more important role to play, not only b putting it into practice, directly if necessary, but also by passing on their knowledge and experience to other comrades. Self-defence is not only a popular idea which the CP's anti-fascist propaganda has helped to spread - but it has become the practical concern of large sections of the Portuguese working class DIFFICULTY The AFM will have great difficulty in slowing down, let alone stopping, this process - not least because the military themselves have been caught up in it to a limited but still very significant extent. On Sunday 22 June a popular assembly in the Olivais-Encarnacao district of Lisbon was held. The barracks of RALIS
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