 The goal of the communists was to raise the rural workers' standard of living sufficiently that a classic Marxist capitalist-to-socialist transition could occur.When the PCB began struggling with political pressure in the late 1950s Francisco Julião began taking on the business of establishing and organizing leagues.In January 1955, Francisco Julião made one of the most important associations legal, the SAPPP, that used to fight for peasants rights before its legalization.