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Working Class History

E42: The Portuguese revolution, part 2

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Working Class History

Society & Culture, Education, History

5.0813 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Concluding part of our double podcast episode about the Portuguese revolution of 1974-5 which followed anti-colonial uprisings in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. Also known as the Carnation Revolution, it overthrew the Portuguese empire and the right-wing Estado Novo regime.
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1:01.8

Hi, and welcome back to part two of our podcast on the Portuguese Revolution of 1974 to 75.

1:07.4

If you haven't listened to Part 1, I'd go back and listen to that first.

1:11.6

Hi, hi, oh, If you haven't listened to Part 1, I'd go back and listen to that first.

1:32.3

As we touched on last time, there were a lot of different political organisations involved in the revolution to some extent. So we asked Phil Maylor, author of Portugal, The Impossible Revolution, who took part in the events, to give us a quick rundown of the most important ones.

1:40.3

Basically, the Spanish Portuguese society was manyfold.

1:47.0

I mean, it was the old right and the fascists were still there, even if they weren't in the country, they still had money,

1:56.0

they could still produce newspapers and leaflets.

2:07.0

And then there would be the extreme rights, people who, like from the CDS,

2:13.4

there's Christian, democratics, socialists, and they just hated the communists.

2:20.0

And then towards the middle, you had the popular Democrats, they used to be called the popular Democrats between the social Democrats and the Socialist Party.

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