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title: 'C.D.E. - a força do trabalho: direito à greve, direito à luta (C.D.E., the strength of labour: right to strike, right to struggle)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cde-forca-do-trabalho-poster-1969/
description: Small campaign poster for the opposition CDE showing a silhouetted photograph of a group of workers under a placard reading 'right to strike, right to…
section: Collection
---

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[![C.D.E. - a força do trabalho: direito à greve, direito à luta (C.D.E., the strength of labour: right to strike, right to struggle)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cde-forca-do-trabalho-poster-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cde-forca-do-trabalho-poster-1969.jpg)

# C.D.E. - a força do trabalho: direito à greve, direito à luta (C.D.E., the strength of labour: right to strike, right to struggle)

Small campaign poster for the opposition CDE showing a silhouetted photograph of a group of workers under a placard reading 'right to strike, right to struggle', with the CDE emblem and the slogan 'the strength of labour'. The tell: it appeals to workers as a collective with two rights that the regime's corporative labour law did not grant, and names no candidate.

## Text on the object

Original (Portuguese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
direito
à greve
direito
à luta
C.D.E.
a força do trabalho
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
right
to strike
right
to struggle
C.D.E.
the strength of labour
```

The small imprint at the lower left margin is too small to read at the committed size and is taken from the library's catalogue note. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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