Ebook: Portugal, the impossible revolution?

Contents note continued: March 11, 1975 -- VIII. Urban Struggles -- Background -- The Occupations -- Housing Struggles -- Inter, CRAM, SAAL, and the Shanties -- Machismo and the Women's Movement -- IX. Beyond the Elections and Political Parties -- Electoral Arithmetic -- "Popular Power" and the Military -- The Republica and Radio Renascenca Affairs -- COPCON and the MRPP -- X. The Great Nonparty -- Autonomous Workers' Struggle -- Inter-Empresas and the Unions -- The "Revolutionary Workers' Councils" -- The Cooperative Movement -- Land Occupations -- XI. Crisis Looming -- Backlash in the North -- The Road to State Capitalism -- The Crisis and the Emergence of the "Group of Nine" -- The Sixth Government and the Advance of "The Nine" -- XII. The Situation in the Class -- Popular Assemblies -- Everyday Life in the Cooperatives -- Beyond Local Workers' Committees? -- XIII. De-Socialisation -- The Media of Control and the Control of the Media -- Military Factions -- Towards Breaking Point.;Machine generated contents note: I. The First Week -- Day 1 Thursday, April 25, 1974 -- Day 2 Friday, April 26 -- Day 3 Saturday, April 27 -- Day 4 Sunday, April 28 -- Day 5 Monday, April 29 -- Day 6 Tuesday, April 30 -- Day 7 Wednesday, May 1 -- II. The First Three Months -- Sizing Things Up -- Timex, Sogantal, Mabor, CTT -- The Cultural Nonrevolution -- Collapse of the First Provisional Government -- III. The First Six Months -- The Return to Reality -- TAP, Lisnave, and Other Big Disputes -- The Antistrike Law and the Resurgence of the Right -- September 28 -- The Third Provisional Government -- IV. The Upsurge -- The Committees -- The Trade Union Question -- The Emergence of Inter-Empresas -- V. The Agrarian Struggles -- The Rural Structure -- Early Confrontations -- Taking the Land -- VI. The Political Chessboard -- The Right -- The Centre -- The Left -- The Polarisation -- VII. The MFA -- Beginnings -- April 25, 1974 -- Soldiers' and Sailors' Committees -- What Political Role?;This is the story of the political revolution in Portugal between April 25, 1974, and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant. After the military coup in Portugal on April 25, 1974, the overthrow of almost 50 years of fascist rule, and the end of three colonial wars, there followed a year and a half of intense, democratic social transformation that challenged every aspect of Portuguese society. What started as a military coup turned into a profound attempt at social change from the bottom up and became headlines on a daily basis in the world media. This personal history depicts the hopes, the tremendous enthusiasm, boundless energy, total commitment, released power, and revolutionary innocence of thousands of ordinary people taking a hand in the remolding of their lives. It does so against the background of an economic and social reality that placed limits on what could be done.--;Contents note continued: XIV. November 25 -- XV. A Balance Sheet.