A people's history of the Portuguese revolution /

On the 25th April 1974, a coup destroyed the ranks of Portugal's fascist Estado Novo government as the Portuguese people flooded the streets of Lisbon, placing red carnations in the barrels of guns and demanding a 'land for those who work in it.' This became the Carnation Revolution,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Varela, Raquel (Author)
Other Authors: Robinson, Peter (Editor), Purdy, Sean (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Portuguese.
Published: London : Pluto Press, [2019]
Edition:English language edition.
Series:People's history (Pluto Press)
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Table of Contents:
  • Photographs, figures and tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editor's note on the English edition
  • Abbreviations. Introduction
  • The seeds of change
  • 25 April 1974: "The people are no longer afraid"
  • Who governs?
  • The anti-colonial movements and the myth of a "bloodless revolution"
  • Strikes and their reverberations
  • Self-management and the struggle against redundancies
  • Women in a democracy are not mere decoration: social reproduction and private life in the revolution
  • Artists and the revolution
  • Workers' commissions and unions
  • "Here is the nursery": urban struggles and residents' commissions
  • Workers' control, 11 march and nationalisations
  • The birth of the welfare state
  • Scheming for power
  • The land for its workers: agrarian reform
  • The "hot summer" of 1975 and the fifth government's frail governance
  • Spain and other "links in the chain"
  • The crisis
  • Democracy and revolution: the meaning of the carnation Revolution
  • In celebration. Chronology
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author.