Portugal: Counter- revolution in the fields

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Canton S Bat peet Pard. Road BESHERATELT ПоссоPCR In fiat for two IMG comrades in andon (prolerably South) fram eginning of August. Phone 36 371 and leave message with Cach. Thia is urgent! tra une ihe eulie i. Tremelo i, Abstracta Bulletin. Out nom. Shor im on oie teln a eria atin American Society of Londo singularh hat the Socialist Party in the Portuguese Parliameot last week should have borne the name of 'land refonn". It was che most portant victory in the precar: our life of the HOSCH HECH counter-revolution in the helis Sport rihe ilhe wing democrats" (tormerly the PPD].

ist Party last year, the sole far left member and three Socialist Party backbenchers, including the sackod Agriculture Minister, Lopes Cardoso, NW1, Spo he new law goes even funne han the nroposal Soares a year ago in his government plan. Now even larger estates are to be returned to their former owners; landowners not entitled Organised b DILE BAOU landlards will have six years to lion will be nald ту віл рав after the attempted mobilised Mario Saare dictatorship -UTILLLT WU LEAL to winl the LINTVELE OIE MUTUELE made by burr it was nod headway. reclaim land; and full compensa Widespread land seizures started Brentral Spinola in March 1975 coup Like the urban workers, pensants gains MHOE TY LEC ISH DENC LEEuEK and they dide'l ADVANCE Particulariy in the Aleiejo and Ribareis in the south, they laok over the old latendo estates Thes dion comacopte and. ou nor, for the most part, was there a collectivisation BeenDems The Exous Orin! old landlords was a massive The right-wing artack on the antil after the Alentejo on suppression or tne ao rosemoe 1975uprising chat it made any real "guerillas".

Troops From the Amadora comtschool regularly visited the occupied estates, supposedly in search ol aribs caches and "subversie MANTECOTS EHL OrIOLES commandos were sent lo manoeuvre AGRI-BUSINESS The present law, which extends tar hevond the Governmebl: freeze on agrarian reform and the OL CLUT OOS TOV BETEE R September, is not primarily aimed at brigiog back the old feudal cd 15 ine 'agri-business' large, mass prophe!g copians Turus But a law In Parliamen is oce thing Actually taking the land RACA IS OOIe SaNDEr

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SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 28 July 1977 p.13