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6 - Revolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2009
Summary
There are only two alternatives: either to be with the Revolution or to be with the reaction.
Brigadier General Vasco Gonçalves, prime minister (May 1975)The MFA is the liberation movement of the Portuguese people; it stands above party and its essential aim is that of national independence. The MFA recognizes that this national independence involves a process of domestic decolonization which can only be achieved by means of the construction of a socialist society.
Plan of Political Action, Armed Forces Movement (June 1975)There is nothing else now going on in the world – not in South East Asia; not even in the Middle East that is half so important and ominous as the communist drive for power in Portugal.
Senator James Buckley (1975)Portugal is beginning to look like the tilting member in a new domino theory that envisions the whole northern rim of the Mediterranean possibly turning red in the not too distant future.
Howard Wiarda (January 1975)If alliances were being forged on one front during the winter of 1974–5, alliances were disintegrating on another. Communist actions were alienating powerful elements of the Portuguese left which had previously collaborated with the communists in the “anti fascist” struggle. Most especially and dramatically, the communists were alienating the rapidly expanding socialists under the leadership of Mário Soares.
In Lisbon, January 1975 was a trying month – cold, misty, with great enveloping sea fogs rolling over the capital and surging in thick white-gray billows up its narrow cobbled streets as if propelled by some ancient wind machine.
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- The Making of Portuguese Democracy , pp. 108 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995