Headquarters Lisbon, Portugal Colours Red | Political position Far-left | |
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Newspaper A Centelha
(The Spark) [1] Ideology Marxism
Socialism
Trotskyism International affiliation Committee for a Workers' International | ||
Revolutionary Socialism (Portuguese: Socialismo Revolucionário) is a Trotskyist political party in Portugal. It is affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International. Prior to 2008 the party was named Socialist Alternative (Alternativa Socialista).
With ongoing social unrest since the onset of the global recession in 2008, the organisation has been critical of the leadership of the CGTP and UGT union federations for their inaction and declining to take "the tremendous opportunity to call a general strike on the same day as the Spanish general strike". Revolutionary Socialism has also criticised the Portuguese Communist Party and Left Bloc for having "hardly used their influential position to mobilise people".
The party has been active in the campaign to stop evictions and the demolition of homes in the municipality of Amadora.