tion of workers' self-defence and self-organisation.
(c) Because of this absence, and because of the lack of proposals to the SP a party that currently groups together nearly half of the proletariat), the accord sanctioned the present division of the workers' movement and did not contribute to surmounting this major obstacle to the development of the revolutionary process.
(d), Furthermore, the 'unitary accord' envisaged the formation of a 'front' in which the MFA is included on the same footing as the autonomous organs, parties, and revolu tionary organisations of the workers' move ment. This not only appeared as a stamp of approval of the CP's project of creating a 'democratic and socialist popular front', but The Internationalist Connunist League (LCI -sympathising section of the Fourth International) had barely twenty members in Portugal at the time of the overthrow of the Catano dictatorship. Since then it has grown to several hundred militants due to its donity to put torward a revolutionary line ol advance for the Portuguese workers and peasants But whereas the Portuguese Socialist and Com munist rarties are receiving massive amounts Or nelp from their well-placed supporters abroad, the LCI has to rely on the comparatively small forces of the internationd revolutionary vanguard Tor support Red Weekly is therefore launching a public appea for money to enable the LCI to carry out still more effectively its campaign for thé development of the organs of popular power and the creation of a National ropular Assembly Please send all monies to: Red Weekly (LCI), 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1. All donations will be acknowledged.
rea weekly i september 1310 Medical Utticer in pursuance of the argumentation provided a left cover for the real reason behind the TUC rejection of the Charter. Audrey Prime explained to the conterence that a sizeable minority of unions do not consider that readily available abortion facilities is an appropriate matter to be within a Charter for the whole trade union movement?
The summer months have seen the leadership of the working class turn its back on the thousands of militants who have looked to them to oppose restrictions on women's SADISTIC This is not due to some bout of summer madness or because the "leadership" gains sadistic satisfaction in (mis) leading the working class up the blind alley to defeat. Many militants in the NAC campaign have seen that Labour MPs like Helene Hayman, Gwyneth Dunwoody and Joyce Butler are prepared to put their names to a campaign against the White Bill and travel countrywide to win others to the campaign. However, their inability to lead the campaign to a successtul conclusion and their mistakes like supporting the Select Committee report, derive from their commitment to the parliamentary system.
The left social democratic MPs involved in the NAC campaign see the demonstrations, the meetings and other activities simply as means of pressurising Parliament. The left MPs are rarely seen on the picket lines outside condemned hospitals.