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	Socialist Party (Portugal) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		José Sócrates, Prime Minister of Portugal, is the leader of the party.
		The President of Portugal until January 2006, Jorge Sampaio, is a member of the party.
		It is a member of the Socialist International and the Party of European Socialists, and has 12 members in the European Parliament.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Party_(Portugal) (212 words)

	Politics of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since 1975 the party system is dominated by the social democratic Socialist Party and the liberal conservative Social Democratic Party.
		Portugal's April 25, 1976 constitution reflected the country's 1974-76 move from authoritarian rule to provisional military government to a parliamentary democracy with some initial communist and left-wing influence.
		Socialist Jorge Sampaio won the February 1996 presidential elections with nearly 54% of the vote.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Portugal (1157 words)

	The European elections and the anti-capitalist left
		The SLP failed to realise its potential of becoming a broad socialist party, essentially because of Arthur Scargill’s authoritarian conception of the party and in particular his stubborn refusal of pluralism.
		It is rather the case that the reformist parties have broken with them by abandoning the defence of past reforms and the perspective of new ones and adopting the neo-liberal agenda.
		He criticises the “assumption (by the LCR) that the Socialist and Communist parties were in radical decline and had, in any case, gone decisively over to the side of the bourgeoisie” – the SSP having, according to him, a “more stark and one-sided” version of the same analysis.
	www.redflag.org.uk /ism/euroelect.html (8434 words)

	[05 Jul 2000] GA/COL/3031 : SPECIAL DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE TAKES UP EAST TIMOR AND WESTERN SAHARA
		Portugal appreciated the efforts of the petitioners who had, through the years, referred to the plight of East Timor's people in the Special Committee.
		RICARDO CASTANHEIRA, Socialist Party of Portugal, said that East Timor was halfway to independence, and that despite certain successes in the Territory, some forms of external dependency were a means of denying liberty.
		NATALIA CARASCALAO, Social Democratic Party of Portugal, said that the decolonization process after the Second World War continued to be written with the firm determination of the United Nations.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2000/20000705.gacol3031.doc.html (3433 words)

	Henry Lamb -- A Socialist by Any Other Name... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Socialists believe that land, resources, and the wealth they generate, should be owned, or at least controlled by the "public," i.e, the government.
		Socialists believe that the marketplace should be controlled by government, to insure the equal distribution of the earth's riches.
		Socialists believe that the entire world should be governed by the United Nations, through a system of selected "stakeholder councils" at the local, national, regional, and international levels.
	www.newswithviews.com /Lamb/henry14.htm (896 words)

	What a wonderful world !: Shock death marks Portugal EU poll (BBC News)
		Portugal's main opposition candidate in this weekend's European parliamentary elections has collapsed and died after a campaign appearance.
		Recent opinion polls have put the Socialists slightly ahead of the governing coalition, which is composed of the Social Democratic and Popular parties.
		Portugal is electing 24 members of the 732-seat European Parliament.
	wndrflwrld.blogspot.com /2004/06/shock-death-marks-portugal-eu-poll-bbc.html (239 words)

	Portugal
		The new king, Manoel II, was driven from the throne in the revolution of 1910, and Portugal became a French-style republic.
		Portugal was admitted to the European Economic Community (now European Union) on Jan. 1, 1986, and on Feb. 16, Mario Soares became the country's first civilian president in 60 years.
		Portugal's Socialist government continued to take advantage of rosy economic conditions in 1997, and in 1999, Portugal became a founding member of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107895.html (1374 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Call for new election hurts reform efforts as Portugal slips further behind ...
		The political crisis comes at a bad time: Portugal, one of the European Union's smallest and poorest members, is being left behind by the rest of the bloc.
		Sampaio, a two-term Socialist president, on Tuesday ran out of patience with a government bedeviled by policy gaffes, a bungled organization and feuding between its members, and said he was dissolving Parliament.
		Perhaps just as damaging to Portugal's hopes for an economic recovery is the lack of political continuity as the nation contemplates the prospect of electing its third prime minister in eight months.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20041204-0427-portugal-politicalcrisis.html (606 words)

	SEP candidate Bill Van Auken on Bush's war anniversary speech: "Threadbare lies in defense of a criminal war"
		Aside from the fact that Washington—and the Republican Party in particular—supported the fascist police state regimes of Franco and Salazar, it was the struggle of the Spanish and Portuguese people that brought about their downfall, not foreign military intervention.
		The Socialist Equality Party is intervening in the 2004 elections to lay the political foundations for such a movement by advancing a socialist alternative to the lies and scare tactics employed by both establishment parties and the media.
		On this, the first anniversary of an unprovoked act of aggression that will live in infamy, the Socialist Equality Party reiterates its demand for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq and for all those responsible for plotting this illegal war to be placed on trial for war crimes.
	wsws.org /articles/2004/mar2004/bush-m20.shtml (1908 words)

	SSP Conference 2002 - International Conveners Report
		However the political themes of the movement may well change after the impact of the war and bring to the fore the question of how the US and other western governments are attempting to police the international effects of rampaging global capitalism.
		The decision of the party to send Alan McCombes, the Voice editor, to Pakistan with the hope of linking up with any left socialist organisations in Afghanistan, while the war was raging, was a courageous and very important decision.
		This means that as well as international solidarity with socialists in Afghanistan, we can have an international discussion with socialists in the country, on the alternative to the US imposed "peace settlement", which will never bring peace.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.org /conference/internatrep.htm (1370 words)

	SSP International
		The Socialist Party (SP, Netherlands), absent this time, had sent a message expressing its interest in the Conference and its desire to continue working with it.
		We, anti-capitalist parties and movements of Europe, are fighting against the EU, its institutions and policies, not in order to defend our national capitalist states, but in the name of a different Europe - social, democratic, peaceful and founded on solidarity.
		Having abandoned their traditi onal Keynesian programme, the social-democratic parties in government have systematically applied the neo-liberal programme and are accordingly profoundly discredited.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.org /international/madrid.html (3329 words)

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	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/keywordn.html (1580 words)

	A brief introduction to the Socialist Party of Timor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Timorese Socialist Association (AST), later the PST, was developed during a period when the key directive coming through the CNRM (later renamed CNRT, National Council for Timorese Resistance) was for activists not to develop a party affiliation or identity.
		Such a party does not aim for the quantitative accumulation of masses irrespective of whether there is consciousness of the aims and needs of the movement or consciousness of all the forms oppression that surround them.
		These parties often have a populist (reactionary conservative) character and are opposed to total change (revolution) of the rotten old order … They are primarily concerned to get the chance to govern and raise their social status.
	www.dsp.org.au /links/back/issue14/14pst.html (3316 words)

	Capitals.com - The World Atlas-- Portugal
		Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil as a colony.
		Portugal is a founding member of NATO and entered the EC (now the EU) in 1986.
		Portugal has been increasingly overshadowed by lower-cost producers in Central Europe and Asia as a target for foreign direct investment.
	www.capitals.com /geos/po.html (1321 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Portugal PM resigns
		The Socialists were re-elected for a four-year term in October 1999, when they won exactly half the seats in the 230-member parliament.
		The BBC correspondent says the man best placed to succeed Mr Guterres as Socialist Party leader is Jorge Coelho, a former infrastructure minister who is number two in the party.
		The party has lacked unity since it failed to oust the Socialists at the last general election, but after Sunday's results Mr Barroso said it was in a position to offer Portugal an alternative government.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1714000/1714941.stm (396 words)

	Xinhua - English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The opposition Socialist Party won Portugal's parliamentary election held on Sunday as it gained 45 percent of the vote, according to the results released by the national electoral agency.
		During the election campaign, the Socialists have vowed to fight sluggish economic growth and a rapid rise in unemployment bymoving Portugal from low-skill industries to more technology-basedactivities.
		The situation exposed fundamental flaws in Portugal's economy, fueling concerns that thenation is falling behind its fellow EU members.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2005-02/21/content_2598806.htm (307 words)

	Socialist Party International Socialist Resistance
		At last year's Labour Party Conference, 82-year-old Walter Wolfgang was violently expelled for shouting "Nonsense!" at Jack Straw, who was trying to defend New Labour's support for the brutal invasion and occupation of Iraq.
		Socialist Students is a national student organisation with active members in over 70 universities and colleges in England and Wales.
		THE THIRD conference of International Socialist Resistance (ISR) and Socialist Students took place on 20 November against a background of the escalating conflict in Iraq, a growing anger against the occupation and further attacks on the public sector at home.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /CampaignsYouth.htm (362 words)

	Narco News Reports on Historic Vote in Portugal
		LISBON, Portugal, July 6, 2000 (AFP) -- The Portuguese Congress adopted on thursday night, in the final hours of the parliamentary session, a project of governmental law about the decriminalization of the consumption and possession of drugs.
		The bill was adopted by all the parties of the Left, the governing Socialist Party, the Communist Party and its ecologist allies, and the "Left Block" (of the extreme left).
		The consumption of drugs and the posession of intoxicants for personal use continue being prohibited but have stopped being a crime, instead becoming an "illicit act of social order" that is punished civilly (not criminally).
	www.narconews.com /portugal1.html (380 words)

	cannabisnews.com: Portugal Legalises Drug Use
		The ruling Socialist Party, which is one seat short of an outright parliamentary majority, was backed in the vote by the Communist Party and other left-of-centre parties.
		Portugal becomes the third member of the European Union, after Spain and Italy, to decriminalise the consumption and possession of small quantities of drugs.
		In China we execute them, in Portugal we treat them as a health problem, in Holland we leave them alone, and in Amerika we usurp big chunks of their lives, all in the name of protecting children.
	www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread6323.shtml (972 words)

	After Madrid: Preserving the Alliance Against Terrorism
		The Socialist Party's victory in the recent Spanish general election has sent shockwaves throughout Europe and the United States.
		The Socialists' rise to power has caused concern in Washington, with officials in the Bush Administration fearing the end of the highly successful Spanish-American alliance.
		The ruling Popular Party was widely expected to be returned to power, but the Madrid bombings shattered their electoral hopes.
	www.heritage.org /Research/NationalSecurity/1743.cfm (3331 words)

	The legitimacy of modern art
		The attempt to produce a socialist or Marxist response to contemporary visual art or to any particular examples of it, such as to Damien Hirst, to the 'Sensation' exhibition or to the Turner Prize, runs immediately into the problem of the legitimacy, or rather the lack of legitimacy, of modern art.
		There is a right wing elitism that views the masses as more or less congenitally incapable of scaling the sublime heights of great art and a left elitism which attributes the indifference of the masses towards art to their cultural impoverishment by class society and capitalism.
		It is, of course, open to argument whether revolution was actually possible in May 1968 or in Chile in 1972-1973 or in Portugal in 1974 but not whether the 'image or hope' of revolution was 'in the air', or whether it had inspirational cultural effects.
	www.isj1text.ble.org.uk /pubs/isj80/art.htm (12610 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		PHOTO: AP Portugal's prime minister on Tuesday expressed confidence in the nation's justice system, one day after 10 people, including top political and TV figures, were charged with sexually abusing minors from a state-run home.
		Parliamentary deputy Paulo Pedroso, a former employment minister in the previous Socialist government and the spokesman for the Socialist Party until his name became linked with the scandal earlier this year, was also charged.
		The upcoming trial of the accused is being billed as the first major test of Portugal's notoriously slow legal system since the country returned to democracy in 1974 after nearly five decades of repressive right-wing dictatorship.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/world/archives/2004/01/01/2003085940 (778 words)

	SI Middle East Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A meeting of the Socialist International Middle East Committee opened in Ramallah on Thursday 14 March, with the participation of the President of the Palestinian Authority and leader of Fatah, Yasser Arafat.
		The meeting resumed on the following day in Tel Aviv where delegates were addressed by the leader of the Israel Labour Party and Israel's Minister of Defence, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, the leader of Meretz, Yossi Sarid, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
		The two-day discussions centred on how to stop the violence and resume the peace negotiations in the region, building on the long-standing commitments of the International for peace in the Middle East and reflecting the concerns of social democrats worldwide about the latest tragic developments in the region.
	www.socialistinternational.org /6Meetings/SIMEC/Mar02/simec-e.html (159 words)

	Women On Waves - War?! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The fundamental rights to freedom of movement, information, reunion, expression and manifestation of the ship’s crew, Women on Waves and the Portuguese organisations are violated by the decision of Paulo Portas and we have asked the judge to overturn the decision and allow the ship to enter in the harbour.
		This evening they participate in a discussion with the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS), the Left Block (BE) and the Communist Party.
		If the government now also decides not to allow people to board the ship while it is in international waters, they scandalously cross the line of their authority and damage their reputation as competent leaders of a country irreversibly.
	www.womenonwaves.org /article-1020.644-en.html (992 words)

	Child sex rocks Portugal
		And, at last: 10 high-level indictments in an alleged paedophile-ring run from a state children's home - a scandal that has rocked Portugal's trust in its authorities.
		Nine men and one woman were charged on Monday with sexually abusing minors and adolescents, rape and organising a paedophile ring at the Casa Pia home.
		Among those indicted are Herman José, a celebrated comic and host of a Sunday night talk show; Carlos Cruz, a former talk-show and quiz-show host; Paulo Pedroso, a parliamentarian and spokesperson for the main opposition Socialist Party until he became embroiled in the scandal earlier this year; and retired ambassador Jorge Ritto.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1464495,00.html (403 words)

	New Statesman - Cover story - The New Statesman Essay - Whatever happened to liberty?
		In six of the 15 EU countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands), social democratic parties had 20 per cent or less of the vote; in two others (France and Luxembourg) between 21 and 25 per cent; and in five others (Germany, Greece, Britain, Austria and Sweden) between 26 and 33 per cent.
		Twenty years ago, many of these European social democratic parties had twice their present proportion of the popular vote.
		Indeed it may find as much support outside as inside socialist parties; Blair seems to get on at least as well with Spain's conservative Prime Minister Jose MarIa Aznar as with his French socialist colleague Jospin.
	www.newstatesman.co.uk /199909060018.htm (2341 words)

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