Protestors make Portuguese premier squirm with song from 1974 revolution

2013-03-02 · first published in marxsite · 57 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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Portugues demonstrators, Friday 1 March, interrupt Prime Minister in parliament live on TV with rendition of the revolutionary song 'Grandola, Vila Morena', from the 1974 revolution.The song was used as a signal to the troops who intitiated the coup that opened up the 1974-5 revolutionay process. The symbolism of contending values and morality could not be clearer.

The capture this was recovered from