PORTUGAL
PSR Leader murdered
International Viewpoint #173 • November 13, 1989
AROUND THE WORLD from functioning.
We request you to write to the President of Sri Lanka, President's House, Colombo, Sri Lanka calling upon the government to release immediately Lionel and Ranjith.
Addresses of the disappeared workers:
M. Ranjith, 686 Rice Mill Road, Katunayeka, Sri Lanka.
M. Lionel, 10/24, Santcraft Watte, Maithr, Mawatha, Ekala, Jaela,
Sri Lanka. * FOURTH
INTERNATIONAL Latin American Inprecor published THE PRESS of the Fourth International has expanded with the appearance of an Inprecor in Spanish for Latin America. The journal, which will appear monthly, intends to cover all important developments on the continent.
The 1980s have seen some profound developments in Latin America: the capitalist offensive launched through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) seeks to impose a new model of development on the continent, at the price of an exorbitant foreign debt; with a very high economic, political and social cost; the loss of national sovereignty; the establishment of a politics of austerity; the privatization of large sectors of the economy; attacks on the gains of the working class; and a steady decline in the standard of living of the population, etc.
But, in the face of these growing attacks, the 1980s have also seen a reorganization of the workers' and peasants' movements; the emergence of a popular urban movement; the self-organization of women; the political and moral perspective of liberation theology; the emergence of an ecologist consciousness; the development of civic movements, which have engendered a rich process of recomposition of the mass movement.
Forum for profound and critical discussion
Latin American Inprecor aims to provide a forum for profound and critical discussion on the situation of the mass movement and its revolutionary vanguard, as, for example, on the dilemmas of the Nicaraguan revolution; the state of the Cuban revolution and its role today; the character and the basis for the revolution; alliances and popular fronts; military strategy; the role of democracy in the construction of socialism; the character of the transition period, etc. In short, all the subjects which today are at the heart of the preocupations of Latin American revolutionaries.
Moreover, the reactions of the Brazilian 28 , PT, the Salvadorian FLMN, the Uruguayan MLN and the Nicaraguan government
OUR comrade José Da Conceiçao de Carvalho, a member of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary
Socialist Party (PSR), Portuguese section of the Fourth International, was assassinated in Lisbon on Friday 27 October. Aged 36, he entered working life at 14 and had been for 9 years in the leadership of a struggle against the closure of his workplace. He had joined the
PSR during his military service in
The PSR, which since its last congress has been engaged in an anti- militarist campaign amongst youth, had organized on the evening of 27
October a rock concert at its party premises, which attracted more than 200 youth. Around 10 p.m., a group of skinheads tried to break in. Repelled the first time, they returned later, in greater numbers and armed. Almost as soon as the scuffling began, a young skinhead had planted his knife in the heart of our comrade.
Grief at José's death was felt throughout the country. All the parties and trade unions of the left united in denouncing this crime as a radio gave extensive coverage to the murder and to the funeral of our comrade on the following Sunday morning, which was attended by some thousands of people, amongst them important personalities;
all left and democratic organizato the repression in Tienanmen Square are evidence of a new sensibility running through the Latin American revolutionary
Inprecor will seek to respond first to the prime necessity of acompanying exploring these new positions which will determine also our activity in Latin Amer-
After a long period during which our forces have been dispersed, the establishment of a range of mechanisms of coordination has begun to yield its first results.
The appearance of the first issue of Latin American Inprecor is, perhaps, nothing more than the laying of the foundation stone of the building we wish to construct.
A mirror for the struggles taking place in Latin America, it secks also to be an instrument for those struggles. Utopian? Perhaps, but utopian ideas can also lead to the building of great things. * tions were represented, in particular the Portuguese Communist Party.
The president of the Republic, Mario
Soares, who could not be present at the funeral, sent his condolences by telephone to the PSR headquarters on Monday morning
The group of skinheads (around 40) seem to have been well known to the police, having already organized similar attacks in the Lisbon area with impunity; after the emotion sparked off by this assassination, the police have arrested three of the fascists, amongst them, it appears, the presumed murderer.
The most important Portuguese rock groups have decide to organize, shortly, a large concert in memory of our comrade. *
INFRECOR
Correspondencia de Prensa Internacional para America Latina Contents of issue number 0, November
1989: Upheaval in the third world;
Colombia: interview with Daniel
Libreros Brazil: "The PT, an alternative government and an alternative power"; Glasnost and the crisis of the Communist Parties; Nicaragua; interview with the Minister of the Economy; Mexico: "The PRT faces the Cardenist project" Uruguay; "The MPP and the challeng-
Yes which it faces"; Cuba; "Soviet-Cuban economic relations".
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