Portuguese revolution

1974-1975: The Portuguese Revolution

1974: The Portuguese Revolution

A short history of the Revolution in Portugal in which an army rebellion overthrew the fascist dictatorship.

The real revolution was in the urban workers took control of their workplaces and farm workers took control of their farms and organised production themselves while the parties of the left merely jockeyed for positions of power, eventually killing the revolution.

Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?

Phil Mailer of Solidarity's excellent history and analysis of the Portuguese Revolution from 1974-1976.

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Worker Insurgency and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977 - Loren Goldner

An analysis of the end of the Salazar and Franco regimes and the transition crises that marked " the last major working class upsurges in the West in the era of the big factory".

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