4. The suspension of collective contract gotiations until the end of December is unubtedly extremely significant. In fact, in ing this measure the Azevedo Government rying to transfer its military advantage inthe social and political spheres. More preely, this decision implies a rejection of the tories that have already been won or apped probable in many sectors (textiles, struction, bakers).
But once these measures have been taken, in if all of them have not yet been successFOMFICAL NTRATO PARA struction workers struggle snowed te sower or mass actIon y applied, two central questions come up. First, the bourgeoisie has recovered its fidence somewhat. CDS and PPD leaflets screaming for blood. st be afraid that it will be outflanked on right. If that happens, the Government Id be led to make decisions that do not respond to the real relationship of social Precarious This in turn could precipitate a workers' bilisation openly supported by the CP, ch today is not frontally opposing the e of emergency and is instead seeking negtions. Such a mobilisation would highlight presently precarious character of the vicon the governmental and military level. tunes is quite conscious of this and has rly proposed a different option. He declared on television on 27 November: nink that the roads to the right can be initively cut in Portugal and that the mily men who now hold political leadership be the bearers of an alternative left pronme which is a historic bloc for the buildThe Antunes group The capacity of the working class to break down the policy of the Government and the employers in the realm of material demands remains the real test. The fact that 10,000 people turned out to a demonstration called by the Intersindical (the trade union federParting of the ways for Carvalho (left) and Gomes