O impacto da revolução portuguesa de 1974-1975 no PSOE visto através de El Socialista

• Main Author: Raquel Varela
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Associação de Actividades Científicas 2009-11-01
• Series: Ler História
• Subjects: PSOE; portuguese revolution; spanish transition; press
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/1880

The Portuguese revolution of the years 1974-1975 had an impact in neighbouring Spain at the political and institutional levels, on the Trades Unions, the Catholic Church and the Armed Forces. In this article we intend to study these influences in the PSOE, Partido Socialista Obrero Español, through the analysis of El Socialista, the official newspaper of the PSOE. PSOE will play an essential role in the talks leading to the Moncloa Pacts, the making and passing of a new Constitutional Act and the consolidation of Spain as a Western style democracy. We’ll analyse, through the El Socialista, how part of the illegalized Spanish left understood and reacted to the events taking place in Portugal between the coup that overthrew the Salazar and Caetano regime on 25 April 1974 and the end of the revolutionary crisis on 25 November 1975.