“The People are no longer afraid” was the cover of one of the newspapers published on the 12th of May of 1974. On April 25, 1974 a coup carried out by the Armed Forces Movement (MFA), in disagreement with the colonial war that had been going on for thirteen years in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea, put an end to the Portuguese dictatorship, which lasted 48 years under the direction of Antonio Salazar and under the leadership of Marcelo Caetano (after 1968).
Thousands of people immediately left their homes, against the appeal of the military who led the coup – which insisted on the radio for people to stay at home -, especially in Lisbon and Porto, and it was with the people at their front door, shouting "death to fascism”, that the Government was surrounded in the Quartel do Carmo (Barracks of Carmo) in Lisbon; the doors of the prisons of Peniche and Caxias were opened for release all political prisoners; PIDE / DGS, the political police, was dismantled; the headquarters of newspaper of the regime, The Age, was attacked and the censorship was abolished.
The Portuguese empire would fall later in 1974, after mobilizing nearly two million forced workers (in the mines in South Africa, cotton plantations in Angola, among others) and a 13 year war – 1961-1974 – to prevent the independence of the African countries of Angola, Cabo Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau. Having been built to increase the profit of monopolies, as well as to discipline the workforce, the Portuguese dictatorship fell in the hands of the workers in April of 1974. A significant part of the property owners had to flee the country after the nationalizations which were meant to put an end to the workers’ control, which had become generalized starting February of 1975, especially in the banking sector, large metallomechanical factories, etc.
The ankylose structure of the empire – as well as that of its Bonapartist regime – led to the most important social rupture in post-war Europe – so great was the rupture and the length of it that no historian to this day has managed to determine how many workers’ meetings happened during the week after the coup by the MFA because there were hundreds, maybe thousands, and countrywide.
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You know what really grinds my gears? If you go to look up any relatively popular game on YouTube there's about a 50% chance that any video you click on will be from an actively fascist creator, whose video will be full of casual racism and misogyny. Like, if I've been searching up gaming stuff recently I'll see that Asmongold guy in my recommendations. I only know who he is because Left twitter was making fun of him a few weeks ago for hating women while also actively living in filth and never bathing or grooming himself. But if I hadn't seen that stuff I wouldn't know who he is and I might have clicked on one of his videos. It's just terrible.
Also, I know people have been complaining about fash on Twitter for years now, but I feel like the last month or so I've been getting a ton of accounts showing up in my For You page that no one I follow follows and that no one I follow has appeared to have liked or retweeted who are engaged in fash rhetoric.
Youtube has thankfully given up trying to recommend anything to me so my entire front page is just Charborg stream archives I've already watched. And anyone who's Twitter wasn't already deactivated for opposing genocide or fascism is a lib who isn't trying hard enough.
I'm really selective about what gaming content I watch on YouTube and usually a video's thumbnail and title could be pretty telling.
I learned that lesson a couple years ago when I was looking up Elden Ring videos. I watched a video from one channel and kept getting recommendations from it and at one point I was seeing their coverage of the Harry P*tter game and there was some pretty cringe stuff.
The only reason I have even a vague understanding of who that is is because of the
from his subreddit salivating at the police attacking protesters in Texas.