Last month the Portuguese sympathising organisation of the Fourth International, the Internationalist Communist League (LCI), held its third (extraordinary; congress to draw up a balance sheet on recent developments and chart a way forward in the changed situation after 25 November.
After a broad democratic discussion throughout the organisation, the congress adopted a set of theses which were immediately published in pamphlet form. The major axes of the theses may be summarised as follows:
- priority to the development of a response to the Government's - for the elaboration and centralisation of the workers' response: a Concurrently, the formation of a secretariat of the workers comm regions would be of major importThe present tactie of the Commpolicy of government compromise, its propaganda around the imminence of the fascist danger in order to justify its alliances, and its manipulation of the coordinating bodies Against this, on the one hand majority). the unity in action of revolutionaries in order to increase their weight in launching mass actions for demands and in the coordinating bodies, and, concretely, in order to strengthen their initiatives towards creating genuinely representative regional secretariats On the other hand we must insist on the necessity for the independence and broadest democracy within the autonomous organs, consolidating the united class front within them and adopting the most appropriate forms of representativity (right of recall, control by plenary sessions, election of delegates to the workers commissions from each sector or workshop so that the commissions will apply the programme decided on by the national congress of workers commis all the trade unions;
- the release of the soldiers and v - for a workers and peasants gove congress of workers commissions anc Below we print an extract from th of the LCI. Next week we will be pul concerning its previous political orier It is on the basis of understanding the priority of intervention in the factories and the workers commissions that we must measure our trade union intervention at the present time. Given the lack of centralisation of the workers commissions and the fact that there are many factories in which they do not exist, and given the lack of a