QUAND LE MFA GROUPE MILITAIRE QUI SE VOULAIT LIBERER LE PEUPLE PORTUGAIS
DU FASCISME
UTILISAIT LES MEMES ARMES QUE LE FASCISME QU IL SE DISAIT COMBATTRE !
C EST A DIRE L INTERDICTION DE FAIRE DES GREVES SOUS PEINE DE REPRESSION !
On August 27, the provisional government introduced an anti-strike law that the PCP and PSP helped draft. Strikes were only allowed if they were deemed to be “in the spirit of the Programme of the MFA”. All strikes had to have ballots and a 30-day cooling off period. No strikes were allowed in the essential services and political or solidarity strikes and occupations were
The next day army units including COPCON surrounded Lisbon airport, which the workers at the state airline Transportes Aéreos Portugueses (TAP) had occupied. Workers who refused to obey military orders were arrested and told they would only be reinstated “on condition they took no further part in political activity”.
Two more coups
The actions of the social democrats and the Stalinist gave the reaction a second wind. On September 10, 1974, Spínola called on the “silent majority … to awaken and defend themselves from extremist totalitarianism
Paul Mitchell, Thirty years since the Portuguese Revolution - Part 2
PUIS LE MARIAGE DES FORCES
MFA ET PCP POUR ENGENDRER UN NOUVEAU FILS QUI DEVAIT ETRE PLUS FORT MAIS FUT "ABORTE " LE FUR
The PCP was also part of the MFA's governing council
The MFA and PCP convened a Front of Revolutionary Unity (FUR, Frente de Unidade Revolucionária) to “institutionalise” the “pact” between the MFA and the people.
The assemblies could only start their work after “an evaluation by the MFA” and would be subject to military control at all levels to preserve their “independence from all parties.” No political organisations were to be permitted in the armed forces except the MFA itself.
The government then approved the economic plan drawn up by Major Ernesto Augusto Melo Antunes, who was a member of the “Group of Nine” officers in the MFA, and which was endorsed by the MFA General Assembly. The plan excluded “the social-democratic control of the management of capitalism … but it does not exclude a pluralistic society … the class struggle now under way must take into account the alternative role which the middle classes can now play.”
INCROYABLE N EST CE PAS? MAIS CE FUT UNE REALITE
ET NOTRE SYSTEME ACTUEL EST LA CREATION DE CES GENS
QUAND L OPUS DEI ESSAYA DE REIGNER AU PORTUGAL
The CDS was founded by Freitas do Amaral, former adviser to Caetano and supported by the Catholic Opus Dei. However, these organisations had no popular support. The first CDS congress in January 1975 had to be abandoned because of riots outside. Further congresses were held in secret.
Paul Mitchell, Thirty years since the Portuguese Revolution - Part 2