Portuguese Communist Party
The Portuguese Communist Party is a communist, Marxist–Leninist political party in Portugal based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself patriotic and internationalist, and it is characterized as being between the left-wing and far-left on the political spectrum.
Bento Gonçalves (1929–1942)
Álvaro Cunhal (1961–1992), its 3rd and longest serving secretary-general.
"Legalização do Partido Comunista Português" (transl. Legalization of the Portuguese Communist Party) (1974)
PCP billboard in Lisbon, reading "Increase salaries and pensions, stop price rises. With you everyday, against exploitation and speculation."
The 28 May 1926 coup d'état, sometimes called 28 May Revolution or, during the period of the corporatist Estado Novo, the National Revolution, was a military coup of a nationalist origin, that put an end to the unstable Portuguese First Republic and initiated 48 years of corporatist and nationalist rule within Portugal. The regime that immediately resulted from the coup, the Ditadura Nacional, would be later refashioned into the Estado Novo, which in turn would last until the Carnation Revolution in 1974.
Military procession of General Gomes da Costa and his troops after the 28 May 1926 Revolution