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A. The first thing to understand is that une socialist rarty is not uke any omen current in ine workers movement. Fr was only founded at a congress in Germany in 1973 by a group of bourgeois politicians - it had no organic link with the Working Cidss.
After 25 April 1974, it began a very subtle policy by adopting in its first legal congress a 'left' programme. - ano inen electing a right-wing leadership headed by Mario Soares. This enabled the Social-" strary to wind certain Oase i ue work ina class - even amone dovanced workers wno nad pernaps been innuenced by tne Communist Party in the struggle against fascism, who wanted an alternative to the bureaucratic methods of the Stalinists, and didn't find any kind of alternauve in une revolutionary orcanisations But as the class struggle has' deepened the margin of manoeuvre of the SP leadership has become less and less. It appears of the bourgeoisie inside the working class Increasingly workers are realising that the SP is trving to hold back the struggle and stabilise bourgeois power in Portugal. Today this can only be done through a serious defeat - a bloody defeat - of the working class. And this is the basic contra diction of the Socialist Party.
This is why we apply the policy of the united front with the Socialist Party, becaus we know unar inside une party unis conta an hour - every hour, on the hour! We need to raise £1,400 by the end of November to meet our target. of £4,000 on the way to that £15,000 Fund Drive total. And with just four days to go to the end of the month, that works out at £15 We have to admit that this is probably more than the combined salaries of Len Murray (TUC) and Campbell Adamson (CBI). But having already raised £2,600 this month, we are optimistic.
The events of the past week confirm once again the over-riding requirement for international solidarity, and the impact that this can have on the struggles being fought in Portugal, Spain and Ireland -as well as on the position of our very own Labour Government.
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LCI In Portugal, the Sixth(hopefully very) Provisional Government has gone on strike while Mario Soares -says the 'socialists' will physically attack the left in order to win freedom. And even before the emaciated body of that other impressive exponent of freedom on the Iberian peninsula has had time to tur in its grave, Wilson has despatched an underling to convey his condol So take out your watches and your wallets.
That doesn't leave us with any spare time on our hands. We hope the Fund Drive will not leave you with any spare cash in • Harold Wilson's heartthrob -£15 an hour is 25p iraultza ala hil! E.T.A. (VI)
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