and a democratic congress of rs imprisoned after 25 November; ent responsible to a national mocratic congress of all the trade ses dealing with the mass work ng a self-criticism by the LCI consolidated trade union bureaucracy, many trade union commissions may be able to be used:
First, as instruments of the workers commissions in the more backward factories;
Second, to enable the vanguard workers commissions in this transition phase of the pre-revolutionary situation in Portugal to make their weight felt throughout the entire working class, deepening struggles for workers demands and participating in the debates going on in the unions;
Third, in the backward sectors, the emergence of factory trade union commissions through the development of trade union struggles can serve as a springboard for the emergence of workers commissions with a mass base.
Some comrades frequently complain that it is difficult to distinguish between workers commissions and trade union commissions. This mixture of functions during the present period during which the trade unions, even those led by the to restrict themselves to mere economic demands and are compelled by the deep crisis of Portuguese capitalism to put forward overall proposals - - must be 1. To develop, on the national level, the general problems of workers control and to introduce this same discussion among the more backtrade unions can contribute significantly to the development of the workers commissions, especially in factories with combative trade union commissions, to the centralisation of their struggle on a national level, and to the development of the factory structrues on which they can base themselves. This requires a determined struggle for trade union democracy, for decentralisation of the discussion of forms of struggle at the factory and branch level.
On this basis the trade unions will be able to be in a position to convoke congresses of industrial sectors based on elected structures in the factories in order to discuss the concrete problems of each sector, thus playing an important role in the coordination of the workers commissions.
It is in this sense that our trade union work, centred primarily on the sectors of workers in which a more rapid radicalisation can be expected because of the economic crisis, is axised around objectives of struggle complementary to those we attribute to the workers commissions. It is also for these reasons that the LCI insists on the absolute necessity of combining both sorts of work, utilising its overall weight at the level of factory work. of a workers' response, to the objective needs of the working masses, and to the level of consciousness of the workers, which does not yet permit the immediate formation of a structure of centralisation of all the autonomous organs.
radicalisation of the working class, it is an objective of struggle that takes account of the development of the workers commissions and the trade unions, aiming at the unification of the class. By placing the emphasis on the unions and not on the Intersindical, it permits the mass base of the congress to be broadened by addressing the unions controlled by the CP and permits the unmasking of the divisive policies of the reformist or sectarian leaderships. In sum, it is a question of an intermediary objective that better corresponds to the present degree of extension and centralisation of the workers commissions.
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