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Socialist Alternative Movement

Socialist Alternative Movement Movimento Alternativa Socialista
Abbreviation	MAS
Leader	Collective leadership
Founded	April 2000 (2000-04)
Preceded by	Left Revolutionary Front
Headquarters	Lisbon
Newspaper	Ruptura
Student wing	Ruptura
Ideology	Socialism Trotskyism
Political position	Far-left
Colours	Red
Assembly of the Republic	0 / 230
European Parliament	0 / 21
Regional Parliaments	0 / 104
Local government	0 / 2,086
Website
www.mas.org.pt
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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 was the Portuguese section of the International Workers' League (Fourth International)^[1] until they split in 2017.^[2] 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	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Government
2015	Gil Garcia [pt]	AGIR!		0 / 230		No seats
2019		3,158	0.1 (#21)	0 / 230	0	No seats
2022	Renata Cambra [pt]	6,494	0.1 (#18)	0 / 230	0	No seats

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
2014	Gil Garcia [pt]	12,442	0.4 (#13)	0 / 21
2019	Vasco Santos	6,641	0.2 (#17)	0 / 21	0
2024	Gil Garcia [pt]	5,057	0.1 (#14)	0 / 21	0

• List of Trotskyist internationals

• Lisi, Marco (March 2013). "Rediscovering civil society? Renewal and continuity in the Portuguese radical left". South European Society and Politics. 18 (1): 21–39. doi:10.1080/13608746.2012.757450. S2CID 155551865.

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

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