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Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
Mailer, Phil,
Publisher: Black Rose Books, Montreal, CanadaYear Published: 1977 Pages: 400pp ISBN: 0-919618-33-2 Dewey: 301.6333 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX6497 The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant. Abstract: - Table of Contents Preface Introduction Chronology Glossary 1. The First Week 2. The Background Problems of capitalist underdevelopment The worker's movement The politicians emerge The Peralta affair 3. The First Three Months Sizing things up Timex, Sogantal, Mabor, CTT The cultural non-revolution Collapse of the First Provisional Government 4. The Return to Reality TAP, Lisnave and other disputes The anti-strike law and the rightist backlash September 28 The Third Provisional Government 5. The Upsurge The Committees The trade union question The emergence of Inter-Empresas The Melo Antunes Economic Plan 6. Agrarian Struggles The rural structure Early confrontations Taking the land 7. The Political Chessboard The Right The Centre The Left The polarisation 8. The MFA Beginnings April 25, 1974 Soldiers' and Sailors' Committees What political role? March 11, 1975. 9. Urban Struggles Background The occupations Housing struggles Inter, CRAM, SAAL, and the shanties Machismo and the women's movement 10. The Elections and Beyond Electoral arithmetic 'Popular Power' and the military The Republica and Radio Renascenca affairs COPCON and the MRPP 11. The Great Non-Party Autonomous workers' struggles Inter-Empresas and the unions The Revolutionary Workers' Councils The cooperative movement Land occupations Neighborhood Committees 12. Crises Backlash in the North The road to state capitalism The crises in leninist ideas The Sixth Government and the advance of "The Nine" 13. The Situation in the Class Popular Assemblies Everyday life in the cooperatives Beyond local Workers' Committees 14. De-Socialisation The media of control and the control of the media Military factions Towards breaking point 15. November 25 16. A Balance Sheet The strengthening of state capitalism Workers' responses Cooperatives Information Recuperation of popular power Appendices Subject Headings |