Parties standing L.C.I.
also savagely denounced by both the CP and the SP.
Nor have the reformists uttered so much as a squeak of protest about the use of the police against the workers' reply -occupations - to the lock-outs imposed by the bosses. Yet the new constitution, voted for overwhelmingly by these parties, explicitly prohibits the lock-out.
But against the steps of the ruling class, against the class collaboration of the CP and SP, the workers are actively searching for the best means possible to defend their gains. Literally hundreds of strikes are taking place all over the country:
Social Democratic Centre (CDS). Less than 8 per cent in last election. The most right-wing of the bourgeois parties. Aims to establish itself as the party of big capital. Many fascists in its ranks, ceneraly ordanised in armed cancs. vot ed against the constitution and will revoke it if it ever ever gets to power.
Popular Democratic Party (PPD). 26 per cent in last election. More liberal man me coo. out also ordanises arm ed bands. Based on small capital, and counterooses curoDean inKs TO CUDS ties with US capital. Formed opposition under Caetano. Voted for the constitution.
Popular Monarchist Party (PPM). Insignificant - can't even decide which mondren to support Christian Democratic Party (PDC). Banned last time after some of its leadGEOFF
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