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The article presented below was published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. It explains how the Socialist Party and the Communist Party of Portugal, assisted by pseudo-left groups that served as appendages to the main labour bureaucracies, were responsible for its defeat. ....
Portugal celebrates today the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos), the nation’s “Freedom Day,” when a military coup ended the Estado Novo authoritarian regime, led by Antonio Oliveira Salazar, Europe’s longest-lived dictatorship and 13 years of colonial wars in Africa. On April 25, 1974, some 200 to 300 officers calling themselves the […] ....
A bloodless army coup in Lisbon fifty years ago changed the world as much as it reshaped Portugal. The Carnation Revolution triggered, what Samuel Huntington calls, the “third wave of democratisation” ....