Portugal

This article is part of the series “50 Years After: Long Live the Carnation Revolution”, published by Pressenza since mid-March 2024. The “Carnation Revolution” of 1974-75 brought freedom to the Portuguese after 48 years of fascism and independence to the…

The Socialist Party (PS) has been in power in Portugal for nine years, the first seven in parliamentary coalition with small left-wing parties and the last two with an absolute majority. In November last year, the President of the Republic…

On 25 April 1974, a revolutionary movement within the Armed Forces of Portugal staged an uprising against the decrepit regime of the Estado Novo, opening the way to democracy and marking the beginning of the end of the wars of…

More than 150,000 demonstrators took to the streets in Portugal, especially public-school teachers and many supportive citizens, to march through the centre of the capital city of Lisbon on Saturday to protest against skyrocketing inflation and the low salaries that…

The proposal, made by the left-wing LIVRE party, has been approved in the Portuguese parliament. Not many details have been announced about the project to test a four-day working week, but the proposal by the Portuguese left-wing party Livre, which…

Portugal, from the point of view of the international far right, is the weak link for its attack on the European Union. Boaventura De Sousa Santos for openDemocracy 21 August 2019 A series of recent events has unveiled increasingly disturbing…

On the 9th of August, precisely 74 years after the nuclear catastrophe in Nagasaki, the documentary “The beginning of the end of nuclear weapons” was shown in Porto, Portugal a city twinned with Nagasaki since 1978. The documentary was produced…

By Álvaro Orus and Mayte Quintanilla. One of the greatest achievements – compared to previous editions – of the 17th Basic Income Earth Network world congress that took place in Lisbon has been the way that basic income has been…

The international BIEN congress (Basic Income Earth Network) dealing with universal and unconditional basic income took place from the 25th to the 27th of September.  The number of participants, level of exchange and harmony of opinions has surpassed the organisers’…

Portugal has been getting noticed for its remarkable recovery in the last two years, defying the doomsayers who predicted the devil was coming the moment that the Troika-prescribed policies were reversed and an expansionary policy was adopted instead. The left-wing…