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SOCIALISTS, communists and anti-capitalists brought down the Portuguese government yesterday after a conservative coalition held onto power for just 19 days.
An alliance between the Socialist Party (PS), the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), the Greens and the Left Bloc was cemented in the morning ahead of presenting a vote of no confidence in the right-wing cabinet of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho.
A government between the conservative Social-Democratic Party (PSD) and the Christian conservatives of CDS-PP had been appointed on October 20 by President Cavaco Silva despite only holding 39 per cent of the parliamentary seats.
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
The shared path of the South African Communist Party and the ANC to the ballot box has found itself at a junction. SABINA PRICE reports
