• 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).
  • Jorge Candeias, 20 May 1999. All movements that joined to create the Left Bloc have maintained their existence and structures intact.
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • In European elections in June the Left Bloc in Portugal made the most significant gains of any member of the European Anti-Capitalist Alliance.
  • 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.
  • The Left Bloc, the Communist PCP, and the Greens (who always run in coalition with the PCP) were all forced to take a position on the new government.