from Lisbon on the Government's preparations and the problems of organising a sufficient response by the working class.
The outbreak of the struggle of the soldiers since the beginning of September, and the emergence of a tendency towards self-organisation in the army (about a dozen barracks now have elected soldiers commissions) have rapidly acCecracu me asucrauon oi wd! constituted the keystone of the project of the Sixth Government, the government of "order' of Prime Minister Pinheiro Azevedo. But at the same time, the workers commissions, neighbourhood commissions, and popular assemblies have not experienced an analogous qualiranve growu by denninon, sucn a lack or synenron isation can only be temporary. Either a decisive step forward will be taken in the direction of the centralisation of the organs of workers power and the transition from a pre-revolutionary situation to a revolutionary situation will take place, or the bourgeoisie will reписШТ aAnaaTIa saT1o atol a1n11S103 ments for imposing its own order and discipline. NEW TACTICS The initiatives being taken today in both opposed camps must be seen in nB COnCTL Alter suflering stinging failures in the first tests of strength, the Government has changed its tactics 33:00 31115 311 191U08 01161318 18 UT LVes.
Very concrete measures are now being added to the appeals for discipline. In the air force, the sergeants are organising. After a five-day meeting, a plenary assembly of air force sergeants - - Convok ed under the impetus of General Morais e Silva - voted a motion insisting on nc nccesy Lor ai nuansiecne acrence of the spirit of the MFA programme.
Ine meeting also adopted a proposal to create 'disciplinary councils' composed of sergeants and members of the commands of various military units in order to 'examine disciplinary violations".
Meanwhile a real army of civil war is in the process of being created: the AMI (Military Intervention Group). The varPhoto: ANDREW WIARD (Report)
une NirLA s deciaration out acainst the ruLa ious regiments that were initially supposed to compose this striking foree refused to take part, so the general staff opted for recruiting volunteers.
The construction of this professional army has been combined with a reorganisation of the police forces (the PSP and the GNR) and a strengthening of The developing crisis throughout the Iberian sub-continent poses one thing verv sharply: the utter inability of the leaders of the mass reformist parties to take these struggles forward to a revolutionary conclusion.
The forces of the Fourth International in Portugal (the LCI) and Spain (the LCR-ETA/VI) are still small. But they are growing daily as more and more workers realise that they alone can provide the necessary political leadertheir operational potential.
The setting in motion of this project goes hand in hand with the dissolution or a large part or ue unis or tae rand army: about a third of all soldiers are going to be demobilised. In addition, many militia officers known for their militant activity have been placed on indefinite leave.
MISTAKE
While the crisis in the army is extremely deep, and while the progress of self-organisation among the soldiers is important, it would be wrong and dangerous to believe that the disintegration of the army has gone so far that the hierarchy is incapable of taking any extension of the 'organs of popular The deepening of the economic recession ane ine structura crsis suIk ing many industrial branches (textiles, clothing, shoes, shipbuilding, etc.) are stimulating a new rise of movement:
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are taking on two new characteristics.
ment that is not prepared to make many concessions, Thus, for the first time broad sectors of the working class are developing an attitude of distrust and opposition to the Government. Their politicisation is accelerating.
Second, the depth of the crisis is such that the amutation of demands for wage increases, shorter hours, or simple demands against layoffs are rapidly becoming clear. Hence there are more and more lists of demands that more or less clearly call for the nationalisation of the entire sector branch-wide planning , and even social(Cont. from page 12) for workers' demands. These movements some of the necessary material assistance.
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First, they are confronting a Governthe nationalised bank. ist planning of the whole economy *in order that the reconversion of one sector does not enter into contradiction with the reconversion of another', as was amirmea in a jomr deciaration D. the workers of the Lisnave and Setenave During a general assembly of the workers commissions of the CUF company held on 4 October the following motion was passed: "If, within one week, the governmental bodies do not take concrete measures for the solution of the grave problem of fertiliser with which the agricultural workers are confronted, the Unity Commission of the CUF will convoke a general assembly of workers to decide immediately and directly to grant me organisaaons or agncurtura workers the fertiliser needed to advance the agrarian reform. The bills, with a discount of 30 per cent, will be sent to The links between the agricultural and industrial workers are being established on a level never attained before, and the objective of the develop ment and the centralisation of the 'organs of popular power is becoming concretised In fact, this is increasingly tied to the effective needs of broad layers of workers, neeas tat are expressca un ure demands for planning, generalised workers control and so on. Further, on the basis of such demands, the objective possibility of unifying the various components of the working class is much greater.
To take advantage of this opportunity to resolve the lack of centralisation of struggle in a positive direction - that is, to stimulate a centralisațion of the workers commissions, tenant commissions, popular assemblies, and soldiers commissions into a National Popular ASSCNOV - remains the priority task of revolutionaries.
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The blowing up of the transmitter of the worker-controlled Radio Renascenca by para-troopers, and the pro-government Socialist Party - PPD - Angolan refugees' demonstration in Lisbon last Sunday show the continuing mobilisation of the right wing in Portugal. ANTON UDRY reports