This is what European capitalisin fears the most. It will do everything in its power to ensure as rapidly as possible the defeat of the Poriuguese workers, and to hold back as long as possible the offensive of the Spanish working class.
because of its sectarianism, which culminated with the 18 July barricades against the SP A group of six members of the Socialist Party, two of whom were members of the national committee, published an open letter to the membership of the SP in which they held the SP responsible for the events. But this letter did not get much of a hearing in the SP because the leadership immediately announced that these six members were suspended, which prevented any real discussion.
BEATEN UP
Also on the day of the Socialist Party meeting in Lisbon on 19 July, the LCI went to hand out a leaflet to the SP calung for a workers umica ront, but our comrades were beaten by the SP marshalls and some members threw us out sayıng, Conunists - go back to Moscow In the face of the present crisis, the fifth Provisional Government is a transitional one. A group of officers led document calling for democratic rights and a multi-party Government with all parties, bourgeois and workers'. This document has received support from 80 percent of the AFM. This could change the situation in the AFM and I want to finish with the tasks of revolutionary Marxists We believe that the main task is to develop, extend, and centranse tue autonomous organs or the working class and defend their independence from the AFM and the bourgeois state. Only these organs can fight back the reactionary threat and can conduct a clearly anti-capitalist struggle. In the North and the Centre of Portugal a broad campaign to clarity the situation for the masses is needed. But there essential that we do everything in our power to solidarise with the Portuguese and Spanish working class. We must mobilise the full might of the international workers' movement to block the imperialist and reactionary plots in Portugal, and prevent the unleashing of a brutal repressive drive against the Spanish working class and its vanguard.
Inside the workers' and neighbourhood. conmissions we must fight for their democratic functioning, through the right to form tendencies, and for united action of the SP CP, and far left militants. The development of workers con trol in the factories and neighbourhoods, and in the trade unions, must be reflected in the right of tendencies in the Intersindicale (trade union federation).
With relation to social democracy we need a special approach. We have stated before and will state again that we defend the Socialist Party's right to free speech and to demonstrate. But at the same time we must denounce the SP because it creates a diversionary discussion - bureaucratic socialism versus democratic socialism - when the real struggle is between capitalism and socialist revolution.
We also oppose the SP leadership's attacks on anarchopopulism', and their attacks on the autonomous bodies of the workers. We must show the SP militants that these bodles are the only ones where they will find proletarian democracy. We must also fight the plans of the Melo Antunes group to reorganise the AFM into an effective bourgeois bonapartist instrument WORKERS' UNITY We knowthat in Portugal today, only the revolutionary Marxists, basing themselves on the method of the transitional programme, and on a correct interpretation of the political situation, can give the answers that can restore proletarian unity. By using the united front tactic, they can turn all their efforts to building a mass workers revolutionary party, a Portuguese section of the Fourth International This is why we consider our fusion with the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT) extremely important, and hope to achieve it as soon as possible after a political debate and democratic congress. The LCI began with 22 people in April 1974. Today we have hundreds of members and thir teen headquarters. We are sure that we will have the solidarity of the SWP, and that the revolutionaries and working class of North America will launch a massive campaign against American imperialism's economic blockade and slan-
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