Socialist Alternative Movement
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The Socialist Alternative Movement (
The party was founded as the Left Revolutionary Front (FER) in 1983. This was dissolved in 2005 and merged with the
The party says in its constitution that "the fight against capitalist exploitation and all forms of oppression of human beings by a socialist democratic regime, for workers' power, to ensure the transition to socialism and communism. We understand by socialism a society in which power is exercised democratically by the workers and Communism a society without classes and without the state. This implies the rejection of the "experiences" of capitalism management spearheaded by the social democrats (PS governments) or of totalitarian regimes dominated by a single Stalinist party".
The party was renamed to MAS and registered as a party in August 2013 (a first attempt at registration in March 2013 was rejected, since its statute violated the assumptions required by the
See also
Notes
- ^ Lisi 2013, p. 36.
- ^ Administrador. "Declaração conjunta de MAIS (Brasil) e MAS (Portugal)". MAS (in European Portuguese). Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
References
- Lisi, Marco (March 2013). "Rediscovering civil society? Renewal and continuity in the Portuguese radical left". South European Society and Politics. 18 (1): 21–39. S2CID 155551865.