Protests against the ruling FRELIMO party continue as opposition candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who is linked to Trump and Portuguese fascist circles, appeals for support from imperialism.
Police in the Portuguese capital have clashed with protesters every night since Monday’s fatal shooting of Odair Moniz.
The BE and PCP aim to subordinate the working class to the PS, to block a movement against the new PSD government, fascism, the Gaza genocide and the NATO war on Russia.
The article presented below was published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. It explains how the Socialist Party and the Communist Party of Portugal, assisted by pseudo-left groups that served as appendages to the main labour bureaucracies, were responsible for its defeat.
For the first time since the 1974 Carnation Revolution toppled the fascistic Salazar regime, a Portuguese election led to a victory for a right-wing coalition in which the far right plays a central role.
Chega’s rise is due to the pro-war, anti-worker politics of the outgoing Socialist Party government and its pseudo-left allies, the Stalinist Communist Party and the Pabloite Left Bloc.
The coronavirus pandemic is spreading unchecked across Europe, causing soaring death rates and pushing hospitals to their limits.
According to the Ministry of Labor, the first half of this year saw 1,499 strike notices, an increase of more than 92 percent compared to last year. In public administration, strikes have risen by a massive 288 percent.
Amid the deepest crisis of global capitalism since the 1930s, the PS is trying to impose austerity and the costs of a war economy on the backs of the working class.
The strikes in Portugal are part of a wave of struggle against austerity and inflation by millions of workers across Europe.
Barely a year after the Socialist Party (PS) won a majority in the Portuguese parliament, strikes and protests are erupting across the country.
A rising tide of class struggles is underway in Portugal and internationally, three years into the COVID-19 pandemic and as NATO wages war on Russia in Ukraine.
Madrid street cleaner José Antonio González’s tragic death highlights European governments’ inaction and indifference to the plight of workers laboring in the heat.
After voting against its budget, The Left Bloc is campaigning for an ever closer relationship with the Socialist Party and its pro-austerity politics.
The calling of elections is a desperate ploy, aimed at helping the union bureaucracy and pseudo-left parties as they try to control a mounting eruption of strikes.
António Costa’s seven-year minority Socialist Party government is tottering as strikes for higher wages and better working conditions erupt across Portugal.
The following is the second and concluding part of a series on the death of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the Army captain who organised the military coup on April 25, 1974, that overthrew 48 years of dictatorship in Portugal.
The following is the first of a two-part series on the death of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the Army captain who organised the military coup on April 25, 1974, that overthrew 48 years of dictatorship in Portugal.
As Rego sought a stimulus for her art, she rejected suggestions that she abandon figurative work and take up abstraction.
In a de facto warning to the working class throughout Europe, experts estimate the British variant accounts for up to 40 percent of all new cases.
