Guerra à guerra. Violência e anticolonialismo nas oposições ao Estado Novo

Abstract

During the 1960s, at a time when the world was witnessing the triumphant consolidation of anti-colonial independence movements, the Portuguese dictatorship was still bent on maintaining its overseas territories. Despite restrictions on the rights of expression and association, some sectors of society began constructing forms of intervention that were strongly critical of the regime’s colonialist stance. This text aims to characterise the practice and discourse of one of these sectors, namely the fragmented Maoist group, contextualizing first the idea of violence in the readings on the “long sixties” and the specificity of the Maoism that emerged at the time.

Keywords

• sixties
• anti-colonialism
• New State
• Maoism
• radicalism
• resistence