ca nanas. Q tneir political line? Are they elected according to On the farm we don't talk politA ics - because there are two parties. In the village we discuss politics, put noton the tarnnere ule a" ority of the workers favour the Communist Party. Twenty-three voted for the CP, and 15 for the Socialist Party. But the workers' commission was elected on the basis of those who were the most capable.
Q farm? So what do you discuss on the Everything to do with work. A There is à problem: some workers want to establish a big cooperative with all the collective farms around the village. It would be one big farm of 12,000 hectares... But the As the Portuguese workers and soldiers were preparing to resume broadcasts from the worker-controlled Radio Renascenca in Lisbon, previously closed down by the Government, a different kind of 'press freedom' was manifesting ase tin condon we members orume BBC's Portuguese service were sacked for "lapses of professional performance' - beneven to reer to a recance tu swallow the BBC's pro-imperialist line where A picket of Bush House, the BBC centre for external broadcasting, is being organised on. 20 November at 5.30 draw attention to the consistent dis tortion of events in Portugal by the ed by an indoor rally with films and speakers. Open meetings of the ad-hoc coordinating committee building this Friday, at 7pm, at St. Brides Institute, Bride Lane (off Fleet Street). pm to protest against these sackings and whole British press. This will be followcampaign, which already has the support of the Magazine Branch of the National Union of Journalists, are being held every there are many people sitting in offices who do nothing.
And what do you reckon?
I say that you can't work with A just a spade. Those in the offices work just like the others. Before I was on a tractor. Now I do the accounts. I work harder than ever.
Where did the idea of the big coQ operative come from?
When we had the meeting which A decided to occupy the various properties, members of the CP said that we should join them together. They said it would make a cooperative for five miles around the village. But the Socialists disagreed. We were going to discuss this plan on 18 August. The commissions from all the farms had convened the workers But the Socialist workers said they Qount as you want - for exampl to increase wages or to obtain new machinery?
We can buy machinery, but not A increase wages. Wage rates are laid down by the unions. It is not up to each farm assembly to decide Anyway, the money we put into the bank can be used by the State to help other farms which have problems. For the moment, what matters is to develop the agrarian reform -to transform every farm into a co operative. After that we will see.
Aren't you afraid that the boss Q will come back? Do militias ex ist to defend the collective farms against reactionaries?
There are no militias, but here A everybody has a gun..
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