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COSTA, Hermes Augusto  e  REGO, Raquel. Far-right populism and trade union representation in Portugal. SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE [online]. 2025, n.39, e2025392.  Epub 25-Jul-2025. ISSN 1647-3337.  https://doi.org/10.30553/sociologiaonline.2025.39.2.

Taking previous research under the “Representativeness of Social Partners and the Impact of Economic Governance” and “Trade unions and right-wing populism in Europe” projects as a starting point, in this text we intend to provide additional contributions to understanding the factors that contribute to the growth of social polarisation processes - expressed in the form of populism - in the labour/union field. The embryonic relationship between trade unionism and far-right populism in Portugal is briefly analysed. It is argued that the origins of trade unionism and its historically consolidated democratic values (emancipation, solidarity, equality, democratic collective representation) are at the antipodes of populism. In the Portuguese context, the populist “appeals” are recent and have to do with the recomposition of the Portuguese Parliament since 2019. A “populist agenda” - imposed from the outside in, from far-right party logics to the heart of the trade union movement - thus seems to have clear but at the same time enigmatic and dangerous purposes.

Palavras-chave : populism; far-right; trade unionism; Portugal..

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