Anarchism in Portugal

Anarchism in Portugal first appeared in the form of organized groups in the mid-1880s. It was present from the first steps of the workers' movement, revolutionary unionism and anarcho-syndicalism had a lasting influence on the General Confederation of Labour, founded in 1919.

The 28 May 1926 coup d'état established a National Dictatorship that harshly repressed the workers' movement. The Estado Novo made any anarchist activity illegal, which forced the libertarian movement to clandestine action. In 1974, after the fall of the dictatorship in the Carnation Revolution, the Hot Summer of 1975 brought about a sense of "anarcho-populism", a residue of the spirit of May 1968.^[1]

^ Freire, João (2017). "Panorama des mouvements sociaux : le Portugal, XIXe, XXe siècles". Variations (in Portuguese) (20). doi:10.4000/variations.838.

[Freire-1] Freire, João (2017). "Panorama des mouvements sociaux : le Portugal, XIXe, XXe siècles". Variations (in Portuguese) (20). doi:10.4000/variations.838.

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