The Portuguese Communist Party is a communist, Marxist–Leninist political party in Portugal based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself patriotic and internationalist, and it is characterized as being between the left-wing and far-left on the political spectrum.
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, was a Portuguese politician, who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th president of Portugal from 1986 to 1996. He was the first secretary-general of the Socialist Party, from its foundation in 1973 to 1986. A major political figure in Portugal, he is considered the father of Portuguese democracy.
The International and State Defense Police was a Portuguese security agency that existed during the Estado Novo regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. Formally, the main roles of the PIDE were the border, immigration and emigration control and internal and external state security. Over time, it came to be known for its secret police activities.
Fernando José Mendes Rosas is a Portuguese historian, professor, and politician.
Álvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal was a Portuguese communist revolutionary and politician. He was one of the major opponents of the dictatorial regime of the Estado Novo. He served as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) from 1961 to 1992. He was one of the most pro-Soviet of all Western Europe communist leaders, often supporting the Soviet Union's foreign policies, including the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. During the 1970s, Cunhal supported Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s political agenda, and strongly opposed Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika policies in the 1980s.
This is a historical timeline of Portugal.
Humberto da Silva Delgado was a General of the Portuguese Air Force, diplomat and politician.
Octávio Floriano Rodrigues Pato was a Portuguese communist leader.
José Dias Coelho was a Portuguese painter and sculptor, an anti-fascist and an important member of the Portuguese Communist Party.
The Academic Crisis is the name given to a Portuguese governmental policy instigated in 1962 by the Estado Novo entailing the boycott and closure of several student associations and organizations, including the National Secretariat of Portuguese Students. Most members of this organization were opposition militants, among them many communists. The political activists who were anti-Salazar used to be investigated and persecuted by PIDE-DGS, the secret police, and according to the gravity of the offence, were usually sent to jail or transferred from one university to another in order to destabilize oppositionist networks and its hierarchical organization.
António Simões de Abreu, known simply by António Abreu is a Portuguese engineer and politician.
José Rodrigues Vitoriano was a Portuguese politician and a major figure in the struggle against the Portuguese fascist regime led by António Oliveira Salazar.
The history of the Portuguese Communist Party, spans a period of 101–102 years, since its foundation in 1921 as the Portuguese section of the Communist International (Comintern) to the present. The Party is still an active force within Portuguese society.
Domingos Abrantes Ferreira, generally known as Domingos Abrantes, is a Portuguese Communist politician. He has been a member of the Portuguese Communist Party since 1954, and was a member of its Central Committee between 1963 and 2012.
Virgínia Moura (1915-1998) was a Portuguese anti-government activist and feminist, opposed to the authoritarian regime known as the Estado Novo. As a member of the Communist Party, she was arrested on 16 occasions for her activities. She was the second Portuguese woman to qualify as a civil engineer.
Pedro dos Santos Soares was a Portuguese communist activist who campaigned against the authoritarian Estado Novo government and was arrested on numerous occasions, spending about twelve years in political prisons.
Helena Pato was a mathematics teacher, a communist opponent of Portugal's Estado Novo regime and a union leader. She was one of the founders of the Women's Democratic Movement in opposition to the Estado Novo and was held as a political prisoner for 6 months. She has authored three books on her experiences at that time and has also written books on education.
Margarida Tengarrinha is a Portuguese teacher, writer, artist and illustrator. As a member of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) she was active as an opponent of the authoritarian Estado Novo regime that governed Portugal between 1926 and 1974, playing a role in document forging and publication of the Party's magazine Avante!. She spent two years in Moscow with the future leader of the PCP, Álvaro Cunhal, and then worked in Bucharest, Romania on a radio station broadcasting to Portugal. After the overthrow of the regime, she became a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic. More recently she has written memoirs, taught at a Senior University, illustrated books and exhibited works of art.
Maria Adelaide Aboim Inglez was a Portuguese communist activist who opposed the authoritarian Estado Novo regime in Portugal.
Maria Rosa Viseu was a member of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) who opposed the authoritarian Estado Novo regime in the 1960s and was a political prisoner.
