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SOCIALIST No.21 June 24th-30th 1976 8p 1. The Prophet of "Popular Power"' .... in reality Carvalho's campaign is part of the problem, not part of the solution. The slogans on his posters - 'From 25 April to the Presidency', and 'A Friend in the Presidency' -express only a personality campaign, and certainly no clear policies different from the general promises of liberty, democ racy, security, and socialism which all the candidates make .....
And it is the campaign of a very unreliable personality, at that ... He has always remained essentially a maverick element within the bourgeois military hierarchy ....
Pato's programme ...
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is almost identical to Carvalho's, It differs mainly by having less leftist rhetoric and including a list of concrete reform measures to which the candidate pledges himself. The essential elements - Armed Forces/ People Alliance, defence of the Constitution, 'national independence' - are the 3. 'A Small and Confused Voice of Independence Having outlined what it sees as the inadequacies of the manifesto put forward by the Trotskyists of the LCI and PRT, the article However, both LCI and PRT have stood against the proCarvalho tide on the Portuguese left, and are proposing critical support for Octavio Pato, as the only candidate of a workers' organisation. This represents an important - though small and confused - voice for working class independence.