“The People are no longer afraid” was the cover of one of the newspapers published on the 12th of May of 1974. On April 25, 1974 a coup carried out by the Armed Forces Movement (MFA), in disagreement with the colonial war that had been going on for thirteen years in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea, put an end to the Portuguese dictatorship, which lasted 48 years under the direction of Antonio Salazar and under the leadership of Marcelo Caetano (after 1968).
Thousands of people immediately left their homes, against the appeal of the military who led the coup – which insisted on the radio for people to stay at home -, especially in Lisbon and Porto, and it was with the people at their front door, shouting "death to fascism”, that the Government was surrounded in the Quartel do Carmo (Barracks of Carmo) in Lisbon; the doors of the prisons of Peniche and Caxias were opened for release all political prisoners; PIDE / DGS, the political police, was dismantled; the headquarters of newspaper of the regime, The Age, was attacked and the censorship was abolished.
The Portuguese empire would fall later in 1974, after mobilizing nearly two million forced workers (in the mines in South Africa, cotton plantations in Angola, among others) and a 13 year war – 1961-1974 – to prevent the independence of the African countries of Angola, Cabo Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau. Having been built to increase the profit of monopolies, as well as to discipline the workforce, the Portuguese dictatorship fell in the hands of the workers in April of 1974. A significant part of the property owners had to flee the country after the nationalizations which were meant to put an end to the workers’ control, which had become generalized starting February of 1975, especially in the banking sector, large metallomechanical factories, etc.
The ankylose structure of the empire – as well as that of its Bonapartist regime – led to the most important social rupture in post-war Europe – so great was the rupture and the length of it that no historian to this day has managed to determine how many workers’ meetings happened during the week after the coup by the MFA because there were hundreds, maybe thousands, and countrywide.
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Yes actually it is very alienating that I know all of this weird esoteric culture and history and philosophy and religion and politics and economics shit and it makes it hard for me to talk to “normal” people about things and I assure you that I do not feel elite I feel like a scared lonely kid who was derrided and ignored and sometimes attacked because I read too many books and wasn’t normal.
I don’t like knowing shit and talking about it being met with accusations of “elitism”. I just know a lot of shit okay fuck you.
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in scenarios like this i use the technique of Positive Visualization (imagining critical bits of my brain being scooped out piece by piece as my eyes slowly take on a placid glaze of forced contentment)
That’s a positive visualization?!
no thoughts head empty :)
Stop posting relatable things ok
“This isn’t china, this is america!!” Yeah dude we could tell from the fact a bunch or armed hogs are harassing people just minding their own business. Basically a uniquely American thing.
yeah so I ate some crackers
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this is so dumb but I’m from China, in USA rn so I’ve never experienced this but I met somebody today who was homeless and had a brain tumour. He showed it to me and told me because he couldn’t afford the surgery, he lost his job and everything when it started to affect his brain function and his ability to speak properly
this is so fucked, I feel like venting about how I’m devastated about this to you guys is like those American movies where US soldiers came back from Asia and they were so sad that they had to kill a bunch of children and commit war crimes against civilians
Yeah. This is a story I heard multiple times in the few times I was in the states. There was one lady at Occupy Long Beach She was 90% through her cancer treatment when she ran out of money. She was homeless with no options but to let it come back to kill her.
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me 5 years ago when the fortune teller says in the future you’re going to be a communist trans woman who makes unhinged rants about family guy on the banned subreddit social media website in the futureinstagram has just informed me that Dril has bullied that G4 dipshit so hard he deleted twitter
after seeing that post yesterday, good
Gooning? Yeah, I’m gooning. I got my black tank top, mirror sunglasses, and buzz cut. I got a baseball bat and I’m ready to do whatever the boss says. If he says “rough 'im up” then that’s what I’m gonna do because i am GOONING
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- Bro skipped the lore?!
Sent in a pair of appies to a company where my sister’s good friend works in HR. praying for the nepo baby gods to smile upon me
following Mao’s advice and getting in arguments everywhere i go. confronting reactionaries at the grocery store and the bowling alley
The fact that they are overturning Weinstein’s conviction because it was oh so unfair is probably the most flagrant abuse of judicial power the US has seen since… wait, okay I guess it’s not that out of the norm. But genuinely wtf
Today Finnish progressives are confused and worried that the Green party had nothing to say during the parliamentary discussion about cutting the right to strike. They are puzzled that the only politicians who voiced disagreements to it were from the socdem party and left alliance.
It’s yet another mystery. These mysteries keep happening to these people it seems.
Who’s going to tell them?
you
I did. It provoked outrage because I said the greens are neolibs. I was told I must not know what I am talking about or am just trolling. As is tradition.
they’ve hated her cause she spoke the truth :meow-hug:
