The Portuguese revolution, in addition to being viewed as a logical consequence of the last 15 years of the Salazar dictatorship (war, migrations, urbanization, de-ruralisation, feminization of the public sphere), must be read in the context of the new political culture which, since the end of the 1950s (anti-colonial emancipation, the Cuban revolution, 1968), gave the Left a boost. This, however, has little to...