The story of Augusto Santos Silva almost involved the International Communist League, but the former president of the Assembly of the Republic narrowly escaped. Contrary to what a Facebook post suggests, which describes Santos Silva as “a former LCI trot-communist, infiltrator of the Socialist Party and former Defense Minister, who has now left the Assembly of the Republic for good,” the Socialist is a different story.
In an article published in 2015 by “Newspaper“, the following: “At the age of 17, Augusto Santos Silva was several things: a history student at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Porto, and a secret activist in a Trotskyist organization called Union of Revolutionary Workers (UOR) And of course the young man with the big smile who showed us the picture.
When the practically unknown UOR merged into the International Communist League, Augusto Santos Silva realized it was time to leave. After realizing Trotsky's role in the massacre of mutinous sailors in Kronstadt in 1921, Put Trotskyism behind it. He only joined the Socialist Party in 1990, making him a minister several times, but the revolution was already underway.
In contrast, in 1978 the LCI merged with the Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRT), which gave rise to the Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR). Later, all this will be Left block.
The official PS source confirmed to Polígrafo the version that takes the “post” shared on Facebook out of context: After all, Santos Silva never joined LCI.
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