Socialist Alternative Movement

Template:Template other Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists The Socialist Alternative Movement (Template:Langx, MAS), formerly known as the Left Revolutionary Front (Template:Langx) is a Trotskyist organization in Portugal. It was the Portuguese section of the International Workers' League (Fourth International) until they split in 2017. It ran 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 form 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).

Election results

Assembly of the Republic

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Government
2015	Template:Ill	AGIR!		Template:Composition bar		No seats
2019		3,158	0.1 (#21)	Template:Composition bar	Steady0	No seats
2022	Template:Ill	6,494	0.1 (#18)	Template:Composition bar	Steady0	No seats

European Parliament

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	EP Group
2014	Template:Ill	12,442	0.4 (#13)	Template:Composition bar		–
2019	Vasco Santos	6,641	0.2 (#17)	Template:Composition bar	Steady0
2024	Template:Ill	5,057	0.1 (#14)	Template:Composition bar	Steady0

Presidential elections

Election	Candidate	Votes	%	Result
2016	Marisa Matias	469,814	10.1 (#3)	Lost Red XN
2021		165,127	4.0 (#5)	Lost Red XN

See also

• List of Trotskyist internationals

External links

• Frente da Esquerda Revolucionária (Ruptura/FER) (Portuguese)
• International Workers' League (Fourth International)