As the Portuguese Trotskyists of the International Communist League point out, the development of capitalist crisis and working class uphear al in Portugal not only makes it poss SoL *MARINEE For the past two years.
Assembly Lo restrict the trade union *To defend the unity of the work ing class, the united front of the class, the Campaign:
struggle against exploitation, reaction, and the political power of the capitalists, to defend proletarian methods of struggle, and to criticise the relorist "To advocate the programme and "To advocate the road of the revolutionary general strike and the armed insurrection of the masses to destroy the capitalist state and set up the AN IMPORTANT move has been taken by the Portuguese Workers Coordinating Committee (PWCC) - a group of nilitants in this country who have beee orgaring links and forms of solidarity between Portuguese workers and British workers In response to the il Murch coup and the growing crusade against the pains of the Portuguese working class in the press al the imperinhst word, the PatY ba decided to launch a Solidarity Campaign with the Portuguese Working Class.
As they point out in the Manifesto of It is not by accident that the British mass mecha are summelaneously suppore right-wing coups in Portugai, camp ip aigrang for the Common Macket, and attacking the British labour movement, socuseng it of groodiness and excessive ware demands, calling for staturory wace contrals, If thought necessary, British woops, now pern usea to preak me Laps gow dustmen's strike, wil tomorrow be sent to Portugal to crush the Portuguese working class When the system is la crisis whetever it may he, the workers must Portuguese workers are now bearing the brunt of the attack carried our by 1700008I 18081807 133007 3019 countros Tougt deir agencies, within and outside Portugal, whether they be exGeneral Spiciola, Lie National Republican Guard or NATO, CIA. Interpol, the CHI or the Cily:: Licy are determined to smash the Portuguese working class by whatever means nooseaty.
"If they sacreed and a Chile-type coup takes place, ending in the massacre of Portuguese workers, it is tre whole of the defeated. Then the bosses will gain strength Acts, imprisoned pickels and social contr acts that british workers will have to face it wil be Endustral Relstions Acts and scatutory wage controls anti-picketing laws and anti-innigrition legislation, bucked up by the whole might of the state's reppessive apparatis.
It is our duty to stop the intervention al NATO and foreign troops in Portugal. It is our duty to stop any coconue boy cott of Porlugal, whether by the multi nationals or hy the finance insticutions Weth nut the support ot the Hritish and European working classes, Portugues WITSITS CDETESUEZEU UNITED WE SHALL WIN DIVIDED The PICC urges trade unionists to support the campaign by: I. inviting a INCIDE PESE COCCO SCHE BE DERRAN trades council or shop stewards meeting 2 moving resotitions of support for the Portuguese working class in its struggle for socialism to go to union conferences and urging union National Committees to invile PRCC speakers to Conference: 3. subscribing to the PWCC new'sletter Our Common Saugele, 4. getting trad union and Labour Party bodies to aftil late to the camputen For further details of the campaig write to: PACC, 18 Fleet Road, Londo NW3. Subscriptions to Our Coumon Struene latest Boue ust outt to the sam address: E1 for 10 issues. Single copies also available from Red Hooks, 97 Caledonian Road, London, NI. (price Bp., including napk