But it is not ten years ago. Today the CP's courso is not just tragic, but dangerously criminal.
As they themselves never tire of pointing out, Portugal is in a very different ecomoric situation. The growing crisis of the world capitalist economy will make things even worse, as hundreds of thousand: of immigrant workers are sent home, swelling the ranks of the unemployed in Portugal and cutting off the economy's most important source of Intensified capitalist competition for declining markets will put the squeeze on Portuguese industries at home, in the colonies (or former But these problems cannot be solved, as the Portuguese CP claims, by the workers tightening their belts and making sacrifices on behalf of capitalist profits. A crisis of the sort Jooming over Portugal can only be dealt with by a workers' state which has all the means at its disposal to overcome the anarchy of capitalist production and create a planned In the absence of such a transformation of Portuguese society, a social and economic crisis will rock the country making uny "bormal or "democratic form of capitalist class rule impossible. The only alternative to the socialist road is the barbarism of a military bloodbath and the imposition of another dicCatorial regime, on the Chilean Ped Weekly Revolutionaries in Portugal are faced with enormous opportu nities and tasks; but they have pitifully few resources. The Portuguese Trotskyists of the LCI see the production of a weekly newspaper as a key step to enable them to intervene amongst a mass audience. Nowhere in Europe will the ideas of revolutionary marxism find such a receptive audience.
The United Secretariat of the Fourth International has issued an appeal for members and sympathisers of the world Trotskyist movement to come to the aid of the LCI, and raise the money required to launch a weekly paper in Portugal.
Rush donations to: RED WEEKLY (LCI), 97 Caledonian Road, London N.1.