Popular Power and the Portuguese Far Left

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ID6258046
AuthorsJohn L Hammond (City University of New York, corresponding author)
Year1985
Volume13
Issue2
Pages207-225
Publication date1985-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Political Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0304-4130 • E-ISSN: 1475-6765
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-6765.1985.tb00119.x
OpenAlexW2137006145
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

The Portuguese revolution of 1974–75 produced a great outpouring of mass political activity, centred on three sites: industrial workplaces, urban neighbourhoods, and southern latifundios. In each, workers or residents organized to meet immediate needs (most often, employment security and housing), but in the favourable political conjuncture they moved beyond immediate grievances to demand far‐reaching social and political changes. Small political parties of the far left attempted to interpret these demands and become their political vehicle; they failed, but achieved a surprising electoral success with the 1976 presidential campaign of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho. Analysing the vote for him, I argue that it is best understood not (as some interpreters claim) as populist or representing Portuguese traditions of Sebastianism and the ‘saviour army’, but as a working‐class‐based expression of the demand for popular power

Political economy · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Power (physics · Presidential campaign · Presidential system · Sociology · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · History, Culture, and Society · Law

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