Portugal and the Collapse of European Social Democracy
Submitted on June 10, 2011
By Chris Marsden - WSWS
...[T]he collapse in support for the social democratic parties was prepared over years by their previous abandonment of any connection with their reformist past and transformation into overt parties of big business. What the end of the speculative boom and the 2008 collapse revealed was the full extent of this political rot and its implications for working people...Masses of workers have repudiated their past political allegiance to the social democratic parties because they are viewed...as no different in essence from the traditional right-wing parties of big business.
