television to discuss 'the lessons of 11 March".
comrades explain why they are standing •Defeated on the terrain of inass struggle, the bourgeoisic is seeking to channel onto the electoral terrain the combativity or which the masses have shown themselves capable. They are seeking to turn the attention of the masses away from the real centres of struggle where their future will be decided the anti-capitalst struggle of the masses in the factories. the working class neighbourhoods, the barracks, and the streets, the creation of autonomous organisations of the workers struggle, independent of turn their attention towards a false objective: elections, where the bourecoisie hope to see a major victory of their parties (the Popular Democratic Party, the Centre Democrats).
On the basis of such a victory the bourgeoisie will seck to reconstitute and reinforce the machinery of the state which serves them, place new limitations on the social, trade union and political rights of the working class, and so prepare for a new offensive against the living and workina standurds of the workens and all working people.
*Nevertheless, we understand that it is important to raise the voice of THE REVOLUTIONARY ELECTION CAMPAIGN of the International Communist League, Portuguese sympathising organisation of the Fourth International, got off to a good start on Tuesday 1 April when a member of the LCI's Central Committee, Francisco Sardo, appeared on national The LCI opened up its campaign immediately after a highly successful national meeting of its adherents" —those who had declared their support for the LCI and its programme in order to put it onto the ballot. Below we reprint an extract from the Election Manifesto of the LCI, in which the Reacção ATA C.
LCI Ieatlet put out during abortive coup revolutionanes in the election campsign and in the Constiruent Assembly itself: "To denounce all forms of capitalist oppression and exploitation of the workers, peasants, and soldiers, and to push forward the struggle to defend their working und Living conditions, the struggle for their social and economic rights; *To denounce all the manoeuvres of capitalist reaction cconomic sabotage, the preparation of new reactLonary attacks and to promote forms of struggle and organisation against capitalist reaction, both ineernally and internationally:
To expose the intentions of the capitalists to use the Constituent and political rights of the workers. peasants and soldiers;
as the only effective way in which to methods of class collaboration and the gradual and peacetul passage to socialism revolutionary government of the working class:
dictatorship of the proletariat and socialism:
ort for the struggles of workers throughout the world.
LCI is presenting candidates in the clections, aware of the tole which it must play in the clectoral process: to promote the unity of the working cluss and, at the same time, to present an alternative, a revolutionury solution, to the economic and ution to the crisis of revolutionary ary workers' party... LCI