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capitalists. racks. difficult moment in our revolutionary struggle against the bourA year and a half after the overthrow of the fascist dictatorship, capitalist reaction has redoubled its attacks in the factories, in the countryside, in the neighbourhoods, and in the barracks. Sometimes it uses insidious demagogy, sometimes open terrorist violence, but always with the same aim: to halt the advances of the alliance of workers, peasants, soldiers and sailors towards the establishment of workers' power; to stop at all costs the abolition of its class privileges obtained through exploitation and oppression; and to There are still powerful weapons in the hands of the bourgeoisie and the Two are particularly dangerous if we do not understand how to deal with them in time. The first is our own disunity, our inability to take forward our own independent offensive on a real class basis. On several occasions we have made this concession to the class enemy, notably in subordinating our struggle to the alliance with the MFA - an officers' move. ment whose contradictions and vacillations have led to the apathy and hostility of important layers of the population, particularly in rural areas; the demoralisation of numerous fighters in our own ranks; and a general sluggishness in the face of the reactionary offensive inside and outside the barWe must learn to confront this danger by organising as a class, breaking withe the militarist hierarchy and challenging on a global scale the power of the bourgeois state apparatus, of which the army is an integral part. The creation of Soldiers United Will Win' (SUV) and the demonstration which it called in Oporto on 10 September are already an important step forward agogy.
WILL WIN! in this direction, particularly if we realise that this impressive response by 50,000 workers (including 1,500 soldiers and sailors in uniform, despite the increasing manoeuvres and the militarist repression) took place in a region which has been the centre of the terrorist offensive and reactionary dem The second powerful weapon in the hands of the class enemy is undoubtedly the important international support it is receiving. This is a product of the common interests which link the exploiters throughout the world. Recent history shows us that this weapon, this counter-revolutionary potential of imperialism, is both powerful and terrible. It is up to us, the workers of Europe, to determine the forms of a struggle which can only be waged through our class solidarity, through the development of our national struggles into a single fight on an international scale to meet any imperialist attack with the response it deserves: the indestructible force of the entire international workers and popular movement.
Today it is Portugal, tomorrow it will be Spain, France, Italy and so on. Difficult struggles are on the agenda. Against the common enemy, our mutual solidarity is both necessary and urgent we are appealing to you to LONG LIVE THE FIGHTING INTERNATIONALISM OF THE WORKING PORTUGAL WILL NOT BE THE CHILE OF EUROPE! -WORKERS, PEASANTS, SOLDIERS AND SOLDIERS - UNITED WE Soldiers United Will Win - 12 September 1975
red weekly 2 october 1975 TYNDALE