The SUV Manifesto propaganda, and the holding of general assemblies of soldiers each time that we call for them; - To struggle for the formation of soldiers commissions - organs of power of the workers in uniform in the barracks - elected and recallable at any time by general assemblies of soldiers; - To stimulate and deepen the liaison with organs of popular power (workers commissions, village councils, tenants commissions) strengthening the power of the exploited through Popular Assemblies. - For the expulsion of reactionary officers; - Against all attempts to purge progressive military - For the improvement of the living conditions of the soldiers (against the poor pay, for free transport, for common quarters and mess halls, against militarist discipline).
The SUV struggles with all the workers for the preparation of conditions that will permit the destruction of the bourgeois army and the creation of the armed forces of the workers power: the revolutionary people's army. ALWAYS, ALWAYS AT THE SIDES OF THE PEOPLE; THAT IS OUR WATCHWORD! WORKERS, PEASANTS, SOLDIERS, AND SAILORS, UNITED WE WILL WIN! OF EUROPE The bourgeoisie and the capitalists still have powerful weapons; two of these are especially threatening, unless we are able to fight back in time. The first is our disunity, our inability to push our independent offensive through to the end on a real class basis. On many occasions we have made this concession to the class enemy, notably by subordinating our struggle to the alliance with the MFA (Armed Forces Movement), a movement of officers whose contradictions and hesitations have cost us the abandonment and hostility of important layers of the population (especially the rural population), the demoralization of many fighters in our own ranks, and sluggishness in face of the reactionary offensive inside and outside the barracks. We have to be oble to counter this danger with our own
PORTUGAL class organization by breaking down the militarist hierarchy and raising an overall challenge to the power of the state apparatus of the bourgeoisie, of which the army is an integral part. The creation of the SUV and the demonstration the SUV organized on September 10 represent important steps in this direction, especially when it is recalled that this formidable response of 50,000 workers (among them 1,500 soldiers and sailors who marched in uniform in spite of the escalation of militarist maneuvers and repression) took place in a region that has been the center of the terrorist offensive and of reactionary demagogy. The second powerful weapon in the hands of our class enemies is undoubtedly the broad international support from which it benefits. That is the result of the common interests that link the exploiters throughout the world. Recent history shows us how powerful and terrible this weapon is, this counterrevolutionary potential of imperialism. It is up to us, proletarians of Europe, to determine the forms of bottle, which can be waged only the