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Portugal 2021 Avante! Festival
September 9, 2021El evento lleva el nombre y patrocinado por el periódico del Partido Comunista Portugués — ¡Avante!, que fue fundamental para derrocar la dictadura fascista de António Salazar en 1974.
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Ain’t no party like a Communist Party: Portugal’s Avante! Festival
September 9, 2021People packed the Lisbon suburb of Amora this weekend for the 45th Avante! Festival—a cultural, musical, and political extravaganza that is a highlight of summer in Portugal.
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Portuguese fascist prison novel speaks to the incarceration experience everywhere
June 10, 2021There is one thing that unites all of those in prison: “Whoever they are, they’re gonna wanna get out.”
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Portugal’s Communists know how to party—and how to govern
March 10, 2021On their 100th anniversary, Portugal’s Communists are still showing that to be “for the people,” you’ve got to be “with the people.”
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Álvaro Cunhal’s prison novel ‘The Six-Pointed Star’—A chat with the translator
February 26, 2021The English translator of the latest Cunhal/Tiago novel shares the background to this epic story of life behind bars in fascist Portugal.
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