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Portugal: Communists Celebrate Five Decades Of Democracy And Struggle

September 9, 2026 Luke Rotello And Moth Wisnewski, People's World. , , ,
Hundreds of thousands of Communists, workers, youth, and their allies joined the 50th anniversary of the Avante! Festival (Festa do Avante!) from Sept. 4 to 6 in Seixal, Portugal, a suburb just outside the capital, Lisbon. The event is named for Avante!, or Forward! in English, the newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party, which organizes the massive gathering. Held annually, the festival celebrates Portugal’s struggle for democracy after the 1974 Carnation Revolution, a bloodless coup orchestrated by left- and Communist-aligned sections of the Portuguese military. It brought an end to the fascist Estado Novo regime, which ruled the country through terrorism and political repression for over 40 years.

Portugal: Fifty Years Since The Carnation Revolution

May 20, 2024 John Green, MR Online. , , , ,
Fifty years ago, on April 25, 1974, Portugal was shaken by an earthquake. Not a geological earthquake, like the one in 1755 that razed Lisbon to the ground and killed around 50,000 people, but a political one, with only four victims. It was an uprising that would overnight bring Europe’s longest lasting fascist dictatorship tumbling down. Shortly after midnight on April 25, the popular song “Grândola Vila Moreno” (Grândola, my swarthy town) rang out over the airwaves of a private Portuguese radio station. To the nervous soldiers in their barracks listening out for it, this was the signal for them to start the engines of their tanks and armored cars and begin their revolt by rapidly taking Lisbon, the capital, and other large towns by storm.
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