Portugal: Problems Old & New

For Portugal the analogies were almost always wrong. It was not Czechoslovakia in 1948. Throughout 1974 and into mid-1975, the Communists held many of the key positions of power: in the government, the local administration, the unions, the press, and they also seemed to have the support of key elements in the army. Yet, during that critical period, Cunhal was sweet reasonableness. After all the PCP, not the PCI, was the first West European Communist Party, in October 1974, to repudiate the ph...