Ralph Blake writes: A full financial bailout of Portugal involving the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) looks set to happen in the first half of 2011. This will involve severe austerity conditions being imposed on [...]
By Ralph Blake Portugal’s left Bloc have achieved a major break through in the last five months. They polled nearly 11% and 10% respectively in the recent European and parliamentary legislative elections in June and September of this year. For [...]
Ralph Blake, a supporter of the Fourth International whose mother escaped to Portugal in the 1930s from Franco’s Spain – only to seek refuge in Scotland during the 1950s from Salazar’s dictatorship, takes a look at the evolution of Portugal’s [...]
The coordinator of Portugal’s Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc), Francisco Louçã, last night thanked the 550 thousand Portuguese who voted for the Bloco in yesterday’s parliamentary elections, thus ensuring that it would more than double its parliamentary representation. “Never before [...]
The next video from the SR dayschool features Miquel Reis discussing the experience of The Left Bloc / Bloco de Esquerda in Portugal.
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