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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Portuguese. |
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London :
Pluto Press,
[2019]
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| 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.