PCP (ml)
Maoists regard CP 'social fascists' as main enemy-PCP(ml) attempted to register this as their symbol!
In Left-Wing Communism - an Infantile Disorder, Lenin polemicised in the strongest manner against the 'lefts' of the German, Dutch and British parties, whom the PRP take after today. His advice to the British Communists was: "Everywhere try to get the people to think, and draw the masses into the strug gle, to take the bourgeoisie at its word and utilise the machinery it has set up.... utilise parliamentary elections and the parliamentary rostrum in a revolutionary and commThe. LCI is taking Lenin at his word and standing 58 candidates, who include textile workers, engineers, building workers, domestics, telepaonists, mecnanics, teacners. printers and Setenave shipyard workers. They are standing in all 18 district capitals, as well as the European and World emigrant conAs part of the process of fusion between the LCI and the PRT, it was hoped that the two would stand a single slate. This has not been possible. After agreeing to a first draft, the two groups were unable which the LCI is campaigning are: * For united action of the working class, via the workers commissions and the trade unions, against the austerity measures and for a work ers plan of struggle. * Against the pact with the bourgeoisie; no compromise with the bourgeoisie or with those parties applying the austerity programme.
For socialism and workers pow er; for a national congress of the organs of workers power to destroy the bourgeois state that exploits and oppresses The candidature of the LCI throughout Portugal is a great step forward not just for the LCI and the FI, but also for the Portuguese workers and peasants. It is through this election campaign that the working class will prepare itself for the imminent class confrontations This is the message that the Portuguese Trotskyists will be taking into every factory, farm, home, school and barracks in Portugal. Ric Sissons
Red Weekly 8 April 1976