Word: carvalho
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...perhaps without much resistance, since the beginning of the revolution, and most of them are in the hands of leftists. When an officer of COPCON, Portugal's internal-security police, recently admitted that he had given 1,500 automatic rifles to left-wing civilians, General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, COPCON's openly radical chief, implicitly defended him by boasting: "If there were a revolution, I would arm the people myself." Saraiva de Carvalho, who has given only tentative support to the Pinheiro de Azevedo government, has also warned: "If I see a turn to the right, I will...
...Goncalves cabinet. The take-overs were carried out not by Communists or Socialists, but by workers supporting the "extreme left" and a policy of worker's control. Nor did the PCP prevent Republica and Renascenza from being returned to their "legal" owners--this decision was made by General Carvalho, an independent leftist then heading the Lisbon military garrison...
When the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) set up a triumvirate last month, American papers hailed Carvalho as the likeliest "Latin American-style strongman" of the group. As head of the military's security forces, he has the power to selectively stifle anti-revolutionary demonstrations: his failure to move strongly against anti-Communist terror in the North signalled more than dislike for the pro-Communist Goncalves. Apparently Carvalho was trying to reduce Communist strength and simultaneously, maneuver Left Socialist support for his independent left position by joining the anti-Communist campaign. But Carvalho may have misjudged a delicate situation, overestimating Communist...
...Carvalho calls for a socialist state organized around factory, office and neighborhood councils, in contrast to the bureaucratic societies envisioned by both the PCP and the PSP. Loosely allied to Maoist, Trotskyist and anarchist parties, Carvalho has received only sporadic formal support among industrial and agricultural workers, who comprise perhaps 30 per cent of the country. But Carvalho is personally popular, supported by a widely based rank and file movement for workers' control similar to the one which precipitated last March's decree nationalizing banks and insurance companies by taking over those institutions...
Meanwhile, the right continues to agitate--from the North, from Spain, and perhaps from Washington (although there is little direct U.S. financial interest in Portugal, save ITT). And Carvalho speaks of defending the workers' revolution with "very hard repression, which we have avoided up to now." In the words of a poster in Lisbon, he and his working class constituency, if they hope to avoid counterrevolution, had better be like steel in the coming months...