# A People´s History of Portugal

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- Authors: [Raquel Varela](https://www.bookquiver.com/raquel-varela), [Roberto Della Santa](https://www.bookquiver.com/roberto-della-santa)
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- ISBN: 978-07-4535-160-5
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2026-02-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A People's History of Portugal reconstructs the last two hundred years of class struggle in Portugal. Raquel Varela and Roberto della Santa examine the material conditions of its people - examining the real causes of the revolutionary waves and counter-revolutionary backlash. Starting in the early nineteenth century, the theme of colonialism and its antithesis runs through the narrative, as working-class life was closely entwined with Portuguese colonial exploitation. Despite relatively slow industrial development, Portuguese people spearheaded a surprisingly vigorous radical culture of dissent, eventually sparking a social and political revolution in 1974. More recently, Portugal's inclusion in the European Union has put its people in a neoliberal stranglehold that stifles democracy to this day. Are the working people of Portugal able to carry the memory of the revolutionary past into its future? This is a history of, and for, the people.