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PORTUGAL retariat of the Fourth International commenting on the agreement and the tasks of revolutionaries.) Four days later, a new compromise was on the agenda; the CP leadership anxiously wondered how it could go about making its rank and file accept the inclusion of the PPD in a new coalition government under the leadership of Pinheiro de Azevedo! In the presence of representatives of the MFA, which simply convoked the meeting, representatives assembled from the following political parties and organizations: FSP, LCI, LUAR, MES, MDP, PCP, PRP-BR." The meeting took place on May 1 and approved the following points:
1. The Copcon document and the document "Line of
Programmatic Action and Tasks of Transition" constitute a valid working basis for the elaboration of a revolutionary political program. *FSP: Frente Socialista Popular - Popular Socialist
Front; LCI: Liga Comunisto Internacionalisto — Internationalist Communist League, Portuguese sympathizing organization of the Fourth International; LUAR: Lige de
Unido e Acçoo Revolucionária - League of Revolutionary Union and Action; MES: Movimento de Esquerdo So-
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Hence, taking account of the objective needs of the working class as a whole in defending its gains and in assuring the advance of the revolutionary process, taking account of the uneven development of class consciousness, and taking account of the differentiations within the SP and the CP, a tactic of workers united front must be developed. This tactic must be centered around selfdefense and around the development of rank-and-File democratic structures that permit both the utilization of the initiative capacity of the workers vanguard and the beginning of the resolution of the problem of unity where it can be posed in the most understandable fashion possible, in practice and on the basis of requirements that are recognized by all the workers. Thus, an analysis of the relationship of forces between the classes cannot be detached from the ability or lack of ability) of the revolutionary left (and the revolutionary Marxists within it) to base themselves on the objective conditions and extend the dynamic that has emerged in the most advanced workers bastions during the past several weeks to much broader sections of the working Then, the breakup of the equilibrium that is heralded by the present radicalization both in the camp of the revolution and in the camp of the counterrevolution could have an outcome favorable to the working class. Whether this will happen or not will be determined in practice, and the synchronization of the pace of the workers upsurges in Spain and Portugal will have a strong influence on the result. September 4, 1975
2. Such a program represents the indispensible instrument for uniting and articulating the actions both of political forces engaged in the revolutionary process and of the popular masses.
3. The document "Line of Programmatic Action and Tasks of Transition" constitutes the basic guiding document for the activity of the government so long as the necessary conditions for the formation of a government of revolufionary unity have not been established.
cialista - Left Socialist Movement; MDP: Movimento
Democrático Português — Portuguese Democratic Movement; PCP: Partido Comunista Português — Portuguese
Communist party; PRP-BR: Partido Revolutionário do Proletariado-Brigadas Revolucionárias — Revolutionary party of the Proletariat-Revolutionary Brigades.