Abstract

NORONHA, Ricardo. ‘The orquestra of economic sabotage’: discursive radicalization and labour unrest during the Portuguese Revolution (1975-75). Anál. Social [online]. 2014, n.210, pp.4-27. ISSN 0003-2573.

The subject of ‘economic sabotage’ gained a decisive importance during the Portuguese revolutionary process of 1974-75. The diversity of meanings it assumed, of situations in which it was employed and of effects it produced, offered it a fundamental role, as the guideline of a narrative economy that portrayed the country’s main business man as conspiring members of a counterrevolutionary plot. This article sustains that the articulation between an ever bigger State economic intervention and social conflicts was a key element in the radicalization of the revolutionary process, making the performance of commercial banks a decisive subject of political struggle.

Keywords : Portuguese revolution; labour conflicts; nationalizations; economic sabotage.

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