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11) Program
mo) Latest Party statements were
ust} posted UNer the party’s eight-
pos) point PFO. am:

O08” e-Dest¥ay, the fascist state and

qu) institute Q qemocratic system.
End the Power of the monopolies

yWeand MMPT,. the economy in
general.

5 ie Realiz, agrarian reform and
distribut© the jand to those who
work it.

' @ RalS€ the living standards

8 Wof the WOrzing class and of the

d ¥ people 1 Reneral.

e De ratize education and
t the arts.
i e Free Portugal from imperial-
“ism.

“2 RecoRnize and assure to oe
vert, People the Portuguese colo-
atiy Mies the Tinnt to immediate inde-
qt
fi) © WOFX for a state of peace

and fri€PQ.hip with all people.

Y ‘Workers Movement
The y does not have a
youth S&%tion, but young Com-

Workers (MJT).

Nes a forum for Bel:
ssion and education
through Alms, lectures, schools
and its r Jovem Trabal-

ae x
_ MJT °®xanized an evening of
Bi} Songs ar poems for the night
at] after PFeSisent Spinola announc-
= Aga Asnomnition of the nape
[ inde-

: ‘ pendence. can peoples to in
mv) Top O% the pill was the popular
| oe A tO: whose song “Gran-
- la dio Morena” was played
7 ot Rade) Club Portugal at mid-
| tight om April 24 as a signal to
e forces that they

should £9
ahead with the plan
Mine gsted Sl
jum
oe The = Sdium was packed at
- 9:30, a CNet hadn’t turned
ane te public address sys-
Pit working properly.
Jo * well-known singers,
; Re Letria, a journal-
5h,.0S¢ Barata Moura, a
é na teacher, had come
Weg .veady to play.
sy Vorkers tried to fix the
\tem but it wouldn’t
a tat so Letria, with his
ey'd pie and Moura, said
' \y without amplifica-

It was obvious from the res-
ponse that what Letria said
about the importance of poetry
and song in Portugal was true.

A minute’s silence for those
murdered by the secret police,
PIDE-DGS, ended with a shout
from Letria of “VIVA O PCP.”

The MJT structure existed
under fascism in opposition to
these young fascists from about
1970.

Its main campaign now is
votes:at 18. “If you can go to
war for Portugal at 18, why
should you wait until 21 to vote
for someone who will stop that
war,” one young worker said.

At one of the MJT picnics, we

had a long discussion on many-

aspects of Portuguese life.
Solidarity

One of the group pointed to
a wood where they had been
watched by the secret police
while they were holding the last
meeting to send a delegation to
the anti-imperialist Tenth World
Youth Festival in Berlin last
year — “as ‘a sign of solidarity
with our African comrades.”

They all rejected neo-colonial-
ism and stressed that an inde-
pendent Portugal free of foreign

domination depended on an inde- °

pendent Africa.
We talked about Spinola in

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Communists from Barreiro cdiirening a Party rally.

Africa, and the death of Amilcar
Cabral, about Spinola’s brother,
a big landlord, and the strength
of monopoly capital in the first
provisional government.
Campaign
One of them mentioned the
fall-off in tourism, Portugal’s
biggest mGney-earner, and the
decrease in remittances from
emigrants. He said there was an
international campaign against
the new Portugal. .
Some were about to do their
military service and all support-
ed the Communist policy not to
desert.

“Unity is all important,” one
factory worker about to join the
army said. “Between the army
and the people and between all
those fighting fascism, we are
advancing our political power
but the monopolies are trying to
sabotage us,” he said. |

He apologized for his lack of
theoretical ability, but said
everyone had been used to doing
practical work against the
fascists.

“That doesn’t mean we do not
understand; we are just not pre-
pared for theoretical discussion.
But that will change,” he added.

“The future we build depends
on the work we do.”

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WORLD NEW

WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES’ $300,000 FOR LIBER

: The World Council of Churches (WCC) voted July 16 to
its controversial special fund to liberation movements to
mum of $300,000 a year. The special fund is part of the WC
gram to combat racism. ;

The central committee of the WCC, which is meeting i
approved the continuation of the anti-racism program age
vote of a West German church representative. The special 1
amounted to about $250,000 annually over the past five ye

MADISON MAYOR SNUBS THIEU REP

MADISON, Wis. — Mayor Paul Soglin has refused to.
visiting representative of the South Vietnamese governmer
to the city and officially ignored his stay in Madison.

“The sooner he’s out of town the better,” said James
Soglin’s administrative assistant.

Col. Quach Buynh Ba, a South Vietnam cabinet level :
visited Madison this week as part of a 30-day tour.

“Our position is that he is part of a corrupt regime with
ocratic base, and we don’t recognize that he has any le
claim to being a representative of his people,” Bowen said

PORTUGAL-FRELIMO TALKS TO BEGIN

DAR-ES-SALAM, Tanzania — Official talks between the
bique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and Portugal on the su
granting independence to Mozambique are to begin, said
him Abbi Farah (Somalia), United Nations Assistant Secretz
eral, Aug. 14 in the Tanzanian capital. “Appropriate pre’
contacts between FRELIMO and Portugal have already taker
he told a Dar-es-Salam news conference. Farah reported
meeting with Samora Machel, FRELIMO chairman, and s:
discussed the general outlook for Mozambique independenc
UN is taking a direct part in the decolonization of Portugt
ritories and for us it is very important to know what is bei
in this direction.”

Farah revealed that he is holding talks during his Afric
with leaders of the national-liberation movements and the ir
ent African states, to fill them in on the results of talks |
UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and President Ant
Spinola and other Portuguese leaders in Lisbon recent}
said he plans to go to Zambia next, to meet with leader:
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).

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LONDON — One hundred thousand people lost the
holidays they had booked, 50,000 holidayers were stranded
and 3,000 employees lost their jobs with the collapse of th
Court Line travel and shipping company last week. Althou:
assistance might be forthcoming to cover some costs, Britis
secretary Peter Shore said that it would be “wrong to |
hopes of the government covering the money lost by peo
have already paid for future holidays.” Above, a spokesman
a Court Line office tries to pacify angry people who have |.
holidays. :

36 MORE PAK CRITICS SENTENCED IN SEOUL

SEOUL — The court-martial has sentenced 36 more of
of the Pak Chung Hee dictatorship to harsh prison terms
South Korean regime came under more pressure from abro
President Gerald Ford announced that the present U.S.
sador to South Korea, Philip Habib, will be withdrawn and |
by Richard Sneider, a State Department Korea specialist. ]
felt by many observers in Seoul to have given a free hanc
in trying to crush opposition.

The 36 people sentenced on Aug. 14 brings to 133 the
of Park opponents sentenced by the Seoul military tribun
were sentenced to death (including Kim Ji Ha, South Kore:
ing poet), about 20 got life imprisonment, and the rest 15
prison terms at hard labor. Park decreed on April 3 that
ticism at all of his regime was illegal and would be punish
sentences up to and including death. Since then, more thi
Park opponents have been arrested. .

SUBCONTINENT’S FLOODS DEATH TOLL: 3,000
At least 3,000 people have died in floods affecting 33 mill

_ple in north-east India and Bangladesh, according to unoffi

mates.

In the Indian state of Bihar alone the official estimate
affected has risen from five to seven million. Floods cove
square miles of the state, all densely occupied by: villages
built houses which crumble under the water pressure.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1974