Celeste dos Cravos
An illustration commemorating the 50 years of the Carnation Revolution that took place in Portugal on the 25th of April of 1974, and the woman, Celeste Caeiro, who gave the revolution its name with a simple gesture :)
25 de Abril sempre! Fascismo nunca mais! ✊
Art Prints: inprnt & Redbubble
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'as mãos da revolução', 2024
or, 'the hands of the revolution'
we're celebrating 50 years of the carnation revolution today in portugal - 50 years since the dictatorship fell, 50 years of being able to express yourself without fear of beatings, incarceration or worse.
it is a date that sits very close to my heart despite being a post-revolution baby. i have enjoyed over 30 years of freedom and i try to not take it for granted.
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Documentary As Armas e o Povo (1975)
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Portugal and its African Overseas Territories before the Carnation Revolution, which occurred 50 years ago today.
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I am naively hoping that the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution will remind the people of my country that fascism isn't the answer.
Let's make it to a century of democracy and many more after that.
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April 25, 1974: Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, the opening of an enormous class battle that was profoundly influenced by the anti-colonial liberation struggles in Africa.
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Sam Marcy, writing in 1975:
“A Communist takeover of Portugal,” said the New York Times on February 17, “might encourage a similar trend in Italy and France, create problems in Greece and Turkey, affect the succession in Spain and Yugoslavia and send tremors throughout Western Europe.” The Soviet Union is then warned that “détente will be the first casualty.”
In the face of brutal frankness and open threats, can there be any doubt that the imperialist powers are preparing the ground for another Chile on the Iberian Peninsula? Do not the working class parties have the right – in fact the sacred duty – to prepare the mass of the people in advance for precisely this eventuality in the kind of manner which would put an end not merely to fascist threats, but to the ruling class and the system of exploitation upon which it rests?
The way Lenin and Trotsky prepared for the Constituent Assembly in 1917 offers an exceptionally instructive lesson. While utilizing all the legal and electoral opportunities offered, the Bolsheviks, knowing full well the counter-revolutionary nature of the bourgeoisie, armed the masses ideologically, politically, and physically for the insurrection. It was thus that they put an end to bourgeois rule and transferred the real power into the hands of the workers and peasants.
Free PDF pamphlet of "Portugal - Revolutionary Developments April 1974-July 1975" by Sam Marcy
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HAPPY 50TH ANIVERSARY OF THE CARNATION REVOLUTION RAHH🌹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
Comming out of hibernation just to say this lol, (i swear ill go back to drawing WTTT stuff when i get through the rough time of the school year 😿😿)
Also if u can, i recommend watching this movie (PT Capitães de Abril | EN: Capitains of April), although its kind of old, it is amazing at picturing what happened on this important day, its on YT and HBO btw
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Happy Portuguese Freedom Day! 🌸
Today Portugal remembers the nonviolent rebellion that ended a 50-year long dictatorship; reestablished democracy in the country and led the path to decolonisation and independence for Angola, Cape Verde, São Tomé e Príncipe, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau.
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