“Semeando ventos o Governo colherá tempestades!”: Crise Marcelista e a vaga revolucionária em Portugal (1968-1974)

Abstract

The 25th of April 1974 is a watershed in contemporary Portuguese society: after more than forty years of na intense authoritarian period, the country would be characterized in all social fissures by a process of rupture and the constant search for democratization. The years before the Carnation Revolution, under the governance of Marcello Caetano, contemplate the period of study of this research, in the process of analyzing the intense social movement that erupts in the country, seeking to break in some ways the constitution of Salazarist authoritarianism. The institutional crisis of the regime coupled with intense social discontent conveyed through intense social mobilizations will be fundamental in understanding the pre-revolutionary period and in the outbreak of the military coup in 1974. The collapse of the state regime reflected in social movements in the same proportion as the own Manifestations of the different social niches influenced a growing crisis of the system. Therefore, the objective of this research is to analyze the Marcellist period in the search for the understanding of the factors conditioning the outbreak of the Portuguese Revolution, based on the defense that the country was not ―asleep‖ in the face of the misconduct of the Estado Novo.