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...Zaccagnini holed up with burly Socialist Leader Francesco de Martino. Emerging from the Christian Democrats' parliamentary offices after three hours, De Martino would only say: "There is something new in the C.D. proposals, but differences still remain." The Socialists, fearful of being squeezed into impotence by informal agreement between the Christian Democrats and the Communists, nonetheless continued to push for early elections...
...face" and a Portugal where "the people take first place," carried a message that had rarely been heard in a nation which had suffered for 48 years under fascism. Fittingly, the song was the signal for those army officers--mainly captains and majors--committed to the cause of a socialist and democratic Portugal to take command of key military and government installations, and to overthrow the regime of President Marcello Caetano. "Grandola" was played and sung by the Portuguese many times in the days following the coup. It expressed better than any party or government's program the motives that...
...this score, the Portuguese Socialist Party should come in for great criticism. The party, led by Mario Saores, has consistently played down the importance of socialist reform like workers' ownership of industry and agrarian reform and emphasized the Communist and far leftists' "threat to democracy." In this way the Socialists have sought moderate and conservative votes--and despite their drop over last year's election, the parliamentary voting saw them remain the largest single political force in the nation, with 35 per cent. But the result of this electoral policy is to legitimate the rightist attack on socialism, which...
...Socialist-Communist coalition--with the Communists as junior partners, reflecting their fourth-place electoral finish with about 15 per cent--is needed to maintain working-class confidence in the Portuguese revolution. Despite the Socialists' insistence that they rule alone, or go into opposition, it is the only true manner in which the promises of April 25, 1974 can be redeemed...
...Fascism will be the ugly conclusion to our society's evolution unless a counterforce--a mass socialist movement--destroys oppression," Chomsky said, in conclusion...