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May 4, 2024 · LONG READ. Features | The Far Right. ‘No turning back’: Carnation Revolution divides Portugal again, 50 years on. As the country celebrates half a century of liberal democracy following the...
May 19, 2024 · The revolution advanced rapidly against the big Portuguese bourgeois families, deeply linked to the Estado Novo, who benefited from state repression to increase their profits and repress the strikes. On May 1, 1974 the demand for wage increases appeared and triggered a wave of strikes.
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3 days ago · The Laotian Civil War was waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December 1975. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater during the Vietnam War with both sides receiving heavy external support in a proxy war between the global Cold War superpowers. The fighting also involved the North ...
4 days ago · During the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974, the Portuguese military played Grandola Vila Morena on the radio as a secret signal to start the revolution. The song’s inclusion in the broadcast was a symbol of defiance against the oppressive regime, and it became an anthem for the fight for democracy.
May 7, 2024 · Log in or register to post comments. Tens of thousands took to the streets in Portugal on 25 April 2024 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution — the day units of the army ousted an authoritarian quasi fascist dictatorship which had governed the country for nearly five decades.
Apr 30, 2024 · The relatively simple coup had become a revolution. What happened? At 10:55 pm, the night before the coup, a radio station played Portugal’s Eurovision song, E Depois Do Adeu s.
May 4, 2024 · Lisbon’s Faculty of Social and Human Sciences was born from the Carnation Revolution, established in 1977 on a site that had previously belonged to the military. Now, the faculty is about to be removed and the former military barracks it occupies is to be converted into a hotel complex.
