Socialist Alternative Movement

Socialist Alternative Movement
Movimento Alternativa Socialista
Abbreviation MAS
Leader Gil Garcia
Founded 2000
Preceded by Left Revolutionary Front
Headquarters Lisbon
Newspaper Ruptura
Student wing Ruptura
Membership No information
Ideology Communism
Trotskyism
Political position Far-left
European affiliation No information
International affiliation International Workers League – Fourth International
Colours      Red
Assembly of the Republic
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Parliament
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Parliaments
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Website
www.mas.org.pt

The Socialist Alternative Movement (Portuguese: Movimento Alternativa Socialista, MAS), formerly known as the Left Revolutionary Front (Portuguese: Frente da Esquerda Revolucionária, Ruptura/FER) is a Trotskyist organization in Portugal. It is the Portuguese section of the International Workers' League (Fourth International).[1] It is running on a joint list with the Madeira-based Labour Party in the 2015 parliamentary elections.

The party was founded as the Left Revolutionary Front (FER) in 1983, this was dissolved in 2005 and merged with the student activist movement Ruptura (which was part of the Left Bloc) to Ruptura/FER.

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 Constitutional Court).

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Notes

  1. ↑ Lisi 2013, p. 36.

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