isations. to the 200 soldiers who voted to support the 25 September demonstration. The soldiers' £5-a-monti pay made it impossible for them to reach Lisbon unaided. Undeterred, they approached the Setenave shipyard workers' commission and Setubal tenants' commission. These raised the money for coaches to take the soldiers across the Tagus to Lisbon. Another link was forged.
Nevertheless, without a truly mass movement outside the army to defend the rank and file against repression, and to solidify with its demands - for democratic rights, a common front against reaction in the army, and for higher pay - there is a grave danger that the militancy in the barracks will be checked and repressed. Such a mass movement But one must integrate them. It's not a question of instituting dual The objective is not to put a brake on the enthusiasm of the masses, and not to destroy democracy.' The problem is that the enthusiasm of the masses lies precisely around the extension of their own organs and their own freedoms, which must inevitably come into conflict with Soares's attempts to restabilise (bourgeois) democracy. The soldiers are already finding out what it is to be 'integrated'. It involves the destruction of their own CoLLECS. The workers, including those in the PCP, can see that the same fate lies in store for them.
It is not surprising, therefore, that PCP workers - hesitating to