last April. Clearly the ship. in the north, bastion of the conservative CDS and stamping ground of the Braga, for example, 865 in Vila Real, MES. a growing sympathy. In the course of the election campaign the LCI more and more showed itself to be an organisation making rapid progress. The fundamental self-criticism of its participation in the Revolutionary United Front (FUR) made at its special congress was appued ourng the campaig: pact. in a way which both influenced numerous mints or me ex reme et and also attracted towards the LCI those reformists critical of their own leaderFor the LCI the campaign was a success which could not be relected in the election results. The numerous public meetings (more than 200) that took place throughout the country all attracted a good response - which from this point of view put the LCI immediately after the UDP, and well before the ane auciences at inese meetings were very attentive to the coherent programme of the LCI, centred around unity of the working class. Its denunciation of the pact between the Revolutionary Council and the major political parties, and the bonapartist projects of the Revolutionary suspension of its electoral rights) found Moreover its agitation for a government of the SP and CP responsible to a democratic congress of the trade unions and workers commissions homed in on the central question of these elections. In Gondomar, a working class suburb of Oporto, the LCI campaign provoked a lively discussion within the local section of the CP and forced a local CP leader to take a pusic position - ne was ther immediately expelled for opposing the The following week the comrades of the LCI organised a meeting in Gondomar's school, attended by more than 100 workers. Among those who came to participate in the discussion were the whole of the local CP, with their former leader.
In Braga, Setubal, Pombal, Covilha, Coimbra, Evora, Beja, Leiria - to men tion only the most important - the LCI campaign had the same impact, and met with the same response. In Oporto and Lisbon more than 1,000 people attended the LCI's meetings An important step forward has been taken. The recomposition of the extreme lett currently taking place will of necessity allow thousands of Portuguese workers to take up their responsibilities towards the whole working class through regrouping in a revolutionary party capable of leading them to victory.
COMRADE MARK CALDOW, a leading member of Cambridge International Socialists, died in a road accident last month. The loss of his political abilities is a creat one not oniv tors but tor the revolutionary movement as a whole -CAMBRIDGE MC
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