People's History of the Portuguese Revolution

Raquel Varela is a Portuguese labour historian, researcher, and professor at New University of Lisbon, and Honorary Fellow at the International Institute for Social History. She is President of the Observatory of Labour and Living Conditions and a member of the executive board of the International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts and co-editor of its journal. She is the author of A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution, A People's History of Europe, and the graphic novel Utopia, with Robson Villalba.

'Lively, brilliantly documented and filled with the voices of Portugal's ordinary people, this book recovers the revolution from below that shook Portugal in 1974-5'

• Photographs, Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Editor’s note on the English edition Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. The Seeds of Change 3. 25 April 1974: ‘The People are No Longer Afraid’ 4. Who Governs? 5. The Anti-Colonial Movements and the Myth of a ‘Bloodless Revolution’ 6. Strikes and their Reverberations 7. Self-Management and the Struggle Against Redundancies 8. Women in a Democracy are Not Mere Decoration: Social Reproduction and Private Life in the Revolution 9. Artists and the Revolution 10. Workers’ Commissions and Unions 11. ‘Here is the Nursery’ – Urban Struggles and Residents’ Commissions 12. Workers’ Control, 11 March and Nationalisations 13. The Birth of the Welfare State 14. Scheming for Power 15. The Land for its Workers: Agrarian Reform 16. The ‘Hot Summer’ of 1975 and the Fifth Government’s Frail Governance 17. Spain and other ‘Links in the Chain’ 18. The Crisis 19. Democracy and Revolution: The Meaning of the Carnation Revolution 20. In Celebration Chronology Notes Bibliography Index About the author