• Retrieved 26 August 2018. The Left Bloc is the more socially libertarian, and bohemian of Portugal's two far-left structures.
  • The left block, Bloco de Esquerda, is comprised of the People’s Democratic Union (UDP), Revolutionary Socialist Party (PSR), and Politics XXI (PXXI).
  • In European elections in June the Left Bloc in Portugal made the most significant gains of any member of the European Anti-Capitalist Alliance.
  • Jorge Candeias, 20 May 1999. All movements that joined to create the Left Bloc have maintained their existence and structures intact.
  • The spirit of revolt lives on in Portugal in the form of the Bloco de Esquerda, the Left Bloc. This radical left party won eight MPs in the Portuguese general election...
  • When the 548 delegates to the seventh national convention of Portugal’s Left Bloc came together in a vast sports hall in Lisbon over May 7-8, they had two big...
  • The weakness of the radical left then became more apparent, leading to debates within each of the three organisations that later founded the Left Bloc.
  • Left Bloc leader Jorge Costa discusses Portugal’s politics under the Socialist Party (PS) government and the party’s changing relation to it, with Green Left’s Dick...
  • But you cannot understand the Left Bloc’s emergence as a major political force without first having some background to Portugal’s history and that is where we...
  • Costa is partially hostage to his demand in the final stages of the election campaign for the Left Bloc and PCP to join the SP in a broad anti-Portugal Ahead alliance.