We do not get this kind of detailed report on our fellow European countries in the British media and the British press these days. More's the pity.

As a Portuguese... i really thank you Thames Tv for this.....🤓🧐🧐

Álvaro Cunhal was an intellectual, I don't buy for a second he didn't speak English. That, and his immediate corrections of the translator, make me sure speaking Portuguese in that interview was just a power move.

Thank you for posting this. I am here because we moved to Portugal 8 years ago & very happy here. I am interested in its political history.

After the 25 April days, was in on many interviews with TU organisers in Lisnav & Setnav shipyards. These middle level organisers definitely spoke English although our questions were made through an interpreter. Gave them time to think about their answer ( smart guys). I was very impressed by this. I was young as were they. I have no doubt Cunhal spoke English.

I remember these troubled times like if they had been yesterday. Amazing how it did not end up in a messy civil war, but the communists would not stand a chance because the centre and north of Portugal would put up a formidable popular armed resistance in a geography and urban environment very unsuitable to intruders. We could then end up with a North Portugal (liberal and democratic) and a South Portugal (a communist dictatorship). The South would be short-lived either by being invaded later from the North or from an intervention from Nato/Spain. I believe the community saw the writing on the wall, and realised it would be a suicidal endeavour, so they tok two steps back and let the democratic process run in the end.

In the 25th of April 1975, the constitutional assembly elections (95% participation) gave only 31 in 250 seats to extreme-left parties, including 30 seats for the communist party. It made clear that the portuguese didn't desire a communist regime. Later, in the 25th November coup attempt, The Portuguese Communist Party refrained from any part in it, knewing they had no popular support, securing their place in democracy. But, don't forget, many other small and more extreme left (and right) wing movements existed and most violence came from them.

2:13 Can anyone please identify this handsome young Portuguese man who is very fluent & articulate in English?

interessante ver o contraste entre a perspetiva do jornalista e a população/ os que estão envolvidos com o MFA especialmente naqueles meses entre março de 75 e a queda do Vasco Gonçalves. Estamos perante um momento de grande "contagem de espingardas" depois da ameaça da direita. Assim, a questão já não era "Vamos para o socialismo?", mas sim "Como chegamos lá?". Longe de mim querer afirmar que havia unidade quanto a esta questão, tendo em conta que o Norte católico e de pequena propriedade era anti-comunista. Não obstante, é notável a diferença entre um repórter que procura encontrar perspetivas individuais - "opiniões pessoais" - no seio de um movimento revolucionário que acima de tudo buscava unidade entre PS/PSD/PCP. Não demorou mais do que quatro meses até que o PCP ficasse isolado, não deixando março de 75 de ser um dos momentos mais peculiares do PREC.

What is the name of the bald men with brown suit jacket?

A tames com pena dos banqueiros. Muitos merecem ainda estar presos

A Europa previsa de alguém com a fibra do grande Vasco Gonçalves.

a economia portuguesa caiu 30% entre 1974-86 ouch.

All this for nothing 🤠

This attempt was carried out by Portuguese left-wing activists

My Sensei. My Teatcher, my Idol. A. C.

Arrogant and feudals capitalists deserved that. Still do.