Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal

Freedom Manifestations, 1974-1977 Archive Photography

Isabel Corda, Paula Figueiredo — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Maecenas sed malesuada ante. Sed laoreet enim sed turpis lacinia posuere. Aenean vehicula faucibus posuere. Nunc sit amet elit ut tellus vulputate facilisis. Pellentesque placerat viverra neque. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per
inceptos himenaeos. Nunc tristique metus a turpis placerat molestie. Phasellus id congue quam. Sed eu lorem est. Phasellus id congue quam. Sed eu lorem est. Phasellus id congue quam. Sed eu lorem est.

Nota de Apresentação

Helena Neves — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Um tempo após um contratempo: Reverberações persistentes da Revolução dos Cravos

Paula Godinho, Ricardo Andrade — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0100

José Afonso, the Popular Power and LUAR

João Madeira — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

José Afonso renewed his musical work in the Algarve, between 1958 and 1964. This process coincides with the General Humberto Delgado’s presidential campaign, the Opposition candidate. His performances also began to take place in popular associations. He composed “Grândola, Vila Morena” in this context. After Mozambique, between 1964 and 1967, having deepened his anti-colonial awareness, he moved to Setúbal. He collaborated with all anti-fascist forces and despite frequently being identified with the PCP (Partido Comunista Português), he is close to the revolutionary left. He sympathizes with LUAR (Liga de Unidade e Acção Revolucionária), created in 1967, known for the robbery of the Bank of Portugal in Figueira da Foz. After the 25th of April, in solidarity with the workers and grassroots dynamics, internationalist, he was enthusiastic about the Popular Power project, expressed in many of his songs. LUAR ended in 1976, but José Afonso remained an activist in the field of the revolutionary left, although without any party involvement.

Through the fields and the cities: musical and political activity of the Coro da Juventude Musical Portuguesa (1969-1976)

Hugo Castro — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0100

This article focuses on the activity of the Coro da Juventude Musical Portuguesa (JMP, Choir of Lisbon), of
Lisbon, from the end of the 1960s (c. 1969) until the
end of the Portuguese revolutionary period (c. 1976).
Considering that, throughout these periods, this choir sought to introduce innovative approaches in the processes of selection, interpretation and presentation of diverse repertoires in different contexts, I highlight the aesthetic and political meanings given by its members to practices that contributed to the dissemination of musical expressions originated from various regions of the country, as a way of appreciation of Portuguese popular culture.

The 25th of April and the Portuguese Revolutionary Militant Liaison Committee. Contributions to the history of Trotskyism in Portugal

João Moreira — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

At the II Congress of the Socialist Party, in 1976, the only opposition list to the leadership of Mário Soares obtained twenty-five percent of the delegates’ votes. At the head of the group were Carmelinda Pereira and António Aires Rodrigues – constituent and first legislature deputies – who, accused of organizing themselves as a trotskyist faction, would be expelled in the following months. This article intends to explain the action of this group in the period opened by the 25th of April 1974, contextualizing its trajectory in the immediately previous years. Among the sources analyzed are interviews carried out with the protagonists, national and international newspapers of the time and documentation from the Centro de Documentação 25 de Abril, the Fundação Mário Soares and the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo.

Women workers in the 25th of April: labour struggles in electronic components factories in 1974

Pâmela Peres Cabreira — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article intends to rescue the history of thousands of women workers who fought for the right to work and for better living conditions during the Portuguese revolutionary period. We have chosen as object of analysis the sector of electronic components production, where the workforce was mostly women. For this purpose, we mainly selected the factories of the ITT group – Standard Electrical and Semiconductors –, Plessey and Applied Magnetics. With April 25, 1974, the possibilities for change were latent and were experienced by the working class, even though the historiography of this period is predominantly male. Contrary to this perception, we highlight how women not only participated, but were active agents in the struggles unleashed in the various spaces, with emphasis on the factory confrontations.

Gender and sexuality: The backwardness of the revolution and the radical influence

João Carlos Louçã — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0100

The revolution that began in April 1974 did not guarantee from the outset the issues of gender equality and non-discrimination in relation to sexual orientation. These were issues in which the time of the revolution did not coincide with the legal and social changes that continued in the following decades. Even with the participation of women in the revolutionary process in its
different contexts, the ancestral gender subalternity imposed by patriarchy remained after the revolution and was the stage for the existence of a significant women’s movement and, subsequently, for the LGBTI+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex) movement. The articulation between the two movements from the end of the 1990s, in shared actions around the demand
for the decriminalization of abortion, makes evident the common problems and responses. This article seeks to illustrate the decisive influence of a radical component in both movements from 1974 onwards.

The Carnation Revolution from Spain in the archive of RTVE

Pablo García Varela — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Contemporary audio-visual sources offer us a unique opportunity to learn about the key role of television in the transmission of historical events such as the Portuguese Carnation Revolution of 1974. The objective of this article is to explain how TVE (Spanish Television) told the Spaniards about this popular uprising in order to analyse the evolution of the discourse of the public entity and Spanish society from the end of the dictatorship to the victory of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) in 1982.

Between the revolution and the “normalisation”: Salazar’s head

Francisco Bairrão Ruivo — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Based on the actions regarding Salazar’s statue in San-ta Comba Dão in 1975 and 1978, we aim to reflect on how the democratic “normalisation” imposed a nar-rative based on the reconciliation and pacification of society, the devaluation of the Revolution and the idea that it was the 25th of November, instead of the Revolu-tion, that ensured the pacification and democratisation of the country. The way of evoking the past and its public uses, was fundamental in the political struggle at the turn of the 1970s into the 1980s – a time of greater tension and confrontation than it is usually perceived and pivotal regarding political violence – notably in 1978, a deci-sive year in the process of settling accounts with the past. Representations of that past, especially of the rev-olution, were essential in legitimising the post-Novem-ber 25th status quo, which had not completely closed the debate on the model of society.

Roux, C., Sá Vilas Boas, M.-H., & Pereira, V. (dir.). Le Portugal depuis la révolution des Œillets : Dynamiques politiques et sociales. Éditions L’Harmattan

Yves Léonard — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Gomes, R. M., & Ó, J. R. do (Eds.). (2023). A Urgência da palavra impressa: A imprensa dos «intrépidos adolescentes» contra a ditadura (1970-1974). Tigre de Papel

Luís Farinha — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Saraiva, T. (2022). Porcos fascistas: Organismos tecnocientíficos e a história do fascismo. Dafne

Lourenzo Fernández Prieto — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000