TO WORKERS & SOLDIERS
1. The SUV (Soldiers United Will Win) is a united anticapitalist and anti-imperialist front that arises at a time when foscist reaction is organizing again, making use of the hesitations and divisions introduced among the workers os well as the policies of governments that are neither willing nor able to defend the just demands raised in the struggles of the workers and peasants, of whom we, soldiers, are a part. 2. Already on several occasions we have made concessions to the bourgeoisie, particularly by subordinating our struggle to the alliance with the MFA (Armed Forces Movement), a movement of officers which, because of its contradictions and hesitations in the past, serves a counterrevolutionary policy today. This has cost us not only the abandonment and hostility of important layers of the population (notably among our peasant brothers), but also the demoralization of many fighters in our own ranks and has resulted in sluggishness in face of the reactionary offensive inside and oulside the barracks. The SUV sets itself the fask of unleashing an independent offensive on a class basis: - To struggle for a democratic life in the barracks by imposing the election and democratic functioning of the ADUs (Assemblies of Unit Delegates), the free circulation of the workers and people's press and SUV APPEAL We Portuguese proletarians are now going through some particularly difficult moments in our revolutionary struggle against the bourgeoisie, capitalism, and imperialism. A year and a half after the fall of the fascist dictatorship, capitalist reaction is redoubling its attacks in the foctories, the fields, the neighborhoods, and the barracks, utilizing either insidious demagogy or open terrorist violence, but always with the same gool: to stop the progress of the alliance of workers, peasants, soldiers, and sailors, an alliance leading to the establishment of workers power; to prevent at any price the abolition of the class privileges it has won through exploitation and oppression; to prevent its disappearance as a ruling class.