50 years of democratic transitions in Portugal and Spain on display.
The Montemadrid Foundation and the Commission for the Commemoration of Fifty Years of Spain in Freedom are presenting an exhibition at Casa Encendida in Madrid.
“Inquietude: Freedom and Democracy” examines half a century of democratic transition in Portugal and Spain.
#Democracy #Portugal #Spain #Freedom #CarnationRevolution #FranciscoFranco #Exhibition #CasaEncendida #Madrid
Desculpem, afinal hoje foi a última actuação! 😥
E que boa que foi! ⭐
#QuisSaberQuemSou #50Anos25Abril #25deAbril #25deAbrilSempre #ColiseuDosRecreios #Liberdade #CarnationRevolution #RevolutionaryMusic
Curiosas? Amanhã há nova sessão!
#QuisSaberQuemSou #50Anos25Abril #25deAbril #25deAbrilSempre #ColiseuDosRecreios #Liberdade #CarnationRevolution #RevolutionaryMusic
Dois cravos no Coliseu. Cravos nunca são demais! 😁
#QuisSaberQuemSou #50Anos25Abril #25deAbril #25deAbrilSempre #ColiseuDosRecreios #Liberdade #CarnationRevolution #RevolutionaryMusic
"Burchett would go on to interview some of the main protagonists of the Portuguese Revolution, including MFA leaders like Vasco Gonçalves, Ernesto de Melo Antunes and Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho. He zigzagged across the country, venturing into the inland northern region of Trás-os-Montes, to fishing towns like Peniche, and into the heart of the Alentejo region, in the south. His narrative is colourful and rich in detail, discussing the Portuguese Revolution in its national and international dimensions with the skill that only an experienced international correspondent could achieve. After decades of reporting from hotspots like China, Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia, the journalist was well positioned to understand the magnitude of the Portuguese revolutionary process and the disintegration of empire in the global context of the Cold War.
In a style reminiscent of George Orwell’s journalistic output in books like Homage to Catalonia or The Road to Wigan Pier, Burchett offers a mixture of reflection, analysis and intimate interviews with important historical protagonists of the revolutionary process in the capital, Lisbon, but also with average people in the provinces – farmers, fishermen, factory workers. As a result, he captured the zeitgeist of the revolution like few could. He unapologetically revealed his enthusiasm for the captains who led the coup and for the social mobilisations taking place in the streets, factories and farms around the country.
Burchett’s journalistic output during the Cold War was often labelled by his detractors as communist propaganda against the West. But Burchett always vehemently denied being a member of a communist party."
#Portugal #25deAbril #Journalism #CarnationRevolution #RevolucaoDosCravos #Jornalismo #History #Historia
On 25 April we mark the anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal (1974) that ended the fascist-type dictatorship established by Antonio Salazar and led the country to democracy. #CarnationRevolution #RevolucaodosCravos
@LevZadov @blogdiva specifically 51 years to the day yesterday for Portugal as I am just learning..... #CarnationRevolution
Today is a holiday in my country. We celebrate the Carnation Revolution. On the 25th of April 1974, 51 years ago, 🇵🇹Portugal got rid of its dictatorial fascist regime in a mostly peaceful revolution, one of the only in recent History.
Fascism NEVER AGAIN! Let every generation remember. #25abril #25abril2025 #25abril1974 #portugal #revolucaodoscravos #carnationrevolution
Here’s a video from RTP explaining April 25th in Portugal, a symbolic day of our revolution! 🇵🇹 Did you know we couldn’t even drink Coca-Cola back then? 😲 A big change for our freedom! #April25 #CarnationRevolution #Portugal #Video #Movie
51 years today since the overthrow of the dictatorship in Portugal.
When I saw the four young women standing in front of this mural in Lagos it struck me that they were born roughly only a quarter century after the military coup and subsequent civil resistance campaign which spelled the end of 48 years of authoritarian rule in Portugal and the country's withdrawal from its colonies. What if it had never happened? How different would their lives be?
Todas as revoluções são impossíveis até que se tornam inevitáveis.
Viva o 25 de abril!
#25abril #25deabril #25deabrilsempre #carnationrevolution #April25 #RevoluçãoDosCravos #CravosVermelhos #AbrilSempre #AbrilÉRevolução
Today - the 25th of April - marks the 51st anniversary of the Carnation Revolution that got Portugal rid of its 41 years dictatorship (48 if you count from the military coup).
Contrary to what our center-right govt said about not celebrating it due to the pope's death, it's still a day of remembrance, protest, and celebration. Especially with the ever more present threats to liberty and people, here and everywhere.
#CarnationRevolution #25DeAbril
(picture from here: https://pixabay.com/pt/vectors/cravo-flor-vermelho-157672/)
"The old and new right-wing parties are amalgamating into a neoliberal and hyper-conservative ‘pleiad’ (social notables) that comprises neo-Christian fundamentalists, including Fatimists (a Catholic religious faction). The new desire to celebrate November 25 emerges from here. The latest extreme on the right is embodied in the anti-communism of IL (the Liberal Initiative) and the neo-fascism of Chega. The media normalizes it all as milquetoast ‘liberals’ rather than what they are – figures of the ‘radical / extreme right’. These groupings want to celebrate November 25 for what it was: a coup d’état against democracy at work, against the duality of popular power. In short, they want to celebrate the counter-revolution, the beginning of the end of the Revolution.
November 25 heralded Portugal’s reconstruction from a ‘national capitalism’ dependent on forced labour in its African colonies until 1974 to a subservient capitalism that is a de facto protectorate of the leading European power of Germany, France, and Britain. Portugal now helplessly depends on investments and capital goods from North America, Spain, China, and other countries.
The ostensible ‘democratic counter-revolution’ of 25 November 1975 is a central political event for understanding what happened in Portugal, and it was far less democratic and far more reactionary in its roots. As we rescue the authentic memory of the Carnation Revolution and lament its demise, no wonder Father Martins Júnior said in a piercing manner that what remains is “50 neo-fascists in the hemicycle 50 years after the April Revolution.”
The impossible became possible on that day 50 years ago. The dreams unleashed on April 25, 1974, neither have been vanquished nor fulfilled. The slogan could not be more urgent: April 25 forever, fascism never again!"
https://socialistproject.ca/2025/04/the-carnation-revolution-of-portugal-today/
#Portugal #CarnationRevolution #25deAbril #25deNovembro #Fascismo #Fascism #EstadoNovo
𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝟮𝟱. 𝗔𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗟 𝗜𝗡 𝗞𝗨𝗥𝗭𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠𝗘𝗡, 𝗧𝗘𝗜𝗟 𝟮
Fr 24. Januar 2025, 19h00 #Filmklubb #Offenbach
🇬🇧 In the second part of the '25th April in Short Films' programme, we present five more short films that approach the 1974 #CarnationRevolution and the period of dictatorship in #Portugal from different angles - some experimental, some documentary, some animated.
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