The workers movement must prevent fascist forces such as the National Front from being able to present themselves futile in the face of popular opinion which condemns it'-as the recent bloody events in Chile remind us only too forcefully.
The capitalist class is always ready to Indulge in murder and repression to pres erve its political power. The only sure defence is the organised might of the workers' novement, which, eventually, must become an armed might, capable of replying to the capitalists" attacks blow to the victims of capitalist chaos as a serious political alternative for blow, any recusal to cootront one violenc of the capitalists head on will only strengthen the power of the capitalist system, and ensure that bloodshed and violence remain permanent features of our daily lives whole is still attempting to rule on the basis of a phony capitalist "democracy, of some of these).
Of course, when the capitalist class as a Photo: MiKE NEWTON (Red Weekly)
and the faschats are as yet still only a small fonce, there are important tactical ques tions involved in how the left deak with them (see Red Weekly 45 for a discussinn But the task facing the workers' moremcat is clear: to prevent fascist forces from being able to present themselves eider an a serious political alternative to the victims of capitalist chaos, Or as Campaign.
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a useful instrument for the capitalist uttacks on the organised working ciss This will often requite 'ungentlemanly conduct, and, as the fascists increasingly resort to violence, even organised counter violence. The alternative, howerer, is to paralyse the workers movement in the face of growing, organised fascist currents at the service of the capitalist class.
of national expenditure its protection from competition in mid1977. Hence it is not surprising to find Spinola writing that: we need an increase in investment to the arder of 40 percent Such views coincide with those of two major commercial groupings with whom Spinola's name has been frequently linked. the Companhia Uniao Fabril (CUF) and the Champalimaud group, both of which Their opposition to Portugal's policy can be sunumed up in another quote from Spinola's book: Any strategy founded on the rigid pursuit of a policy of imposing
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