DSpace Collection:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/143292024-03-28T17:34:02Z2024-03-28T17:34:02ZInclusion and political participation in the age of post-democracyFontes, Paulohttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/327342022-11-16T16:06:37Z2021-06-20T23:00:00ZTitle: Inclusion and political participation in the age of post-democracy
Authors: Fontes, Paulo
Abstract: In the last few decades, we have been witnessing the deflation of the ideal of participative democracy. If, on the one hand, we go back to the original formulations of the 1960 and 1970, we can observe that these indicated the need to expand the spaces of collective democratic management in everyday life, particularly in the workplace. But, on the other hand, the models of the following decades accepted the circumscription of democratic practices to the state. In a parallel movement, the critic to the representative institutions and the political passivity that they promote was set aside, in favor of a perception that the difference between participation and representation is practically annulled. With that, the radicalism of the criticism to the deficit of participation in liberal democracies is lost.
In a context of postmodernity, in which the maladies of modernity have not been remedied, along with the widespread disinterest in public affairs, especially in the younger strata, it is urgent to revitalize dormant democracies, mostly in the Western world. It becomes pertinent, as an objective for our work, based on existing scientific knowledge, to imagine and conceptualize new forms of inclusion and social and political participation that may renew the democratic system.2021-06-20T23:00:00ZSyndicalism and anarchism in Portugal during the interwar period: Struggles, ideological competition, and repressionGuimarães, Paulo EduardoFreire, João Paulohttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/296292021-04-01T14:34:37Z2010-04-12T23:00:00ZTitle: Syndicalism and anarchism in Portugal during the interwar period: Struggles, ideological competition, and repression
Authors: Guimarães, Paulo Eduardo; Freire, João Paulo
Abstract: The history of the Portuguese labour movement during the interwar period has been a narrative of the loss of the hegemonic influence that anarchists achieved among the workers’ organizations at the end of the I World War. It has been also emphasized the strategic defeat of the syndicalism in the confrontation with the catholic corporative State, and of the growing influence of the communists under the dictatorship due to the efficiency of their organization, discipline, and propaganda. Since the 1970s, the Portuguese historiography has insisted
on the ideological and organisational shortcomings of syndicalism and anarchism during the First Republic (1910-1926) and Military Dictatorship (1926-1933), recovering the Marxist critique of that period and overshadowing the action of ideological competition and struggle among social militants at that time. In this
paper, we reappraise the organisational trajectory, the struggles against the bosses and the State in the context of fierce competition between libertarians, and authoritarian communists during the period of adversity for the working classes. We conclude that after the end of the Spanish civil war, the changing international
environment, the efficient communist propaganda, the efficacy of their clandestine organization and their antifascist strategy led to a growing isolation of libertarian ideals. Despite that, there were proposals for a strategic
and ideological renewal of the libertarian movement after the 1940s.2010-04-12T23:00:00ZThe Emancipation Of All Beings In The Future Society: Utopian Social Landscapes In Early 20th Century Portugal And The Struggling For A Better LifeGuimarães, Paulo Eduardohttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/267122020-02-03T09:15:57Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: The Emancipation Of All Beings In The Future Society: Utopian Social Landscapes In Early 20th Century Portugal And The Struggling For A Better Life
Authors: Guimarães, Paulo Eduardo
Abstract: In spite of the extensive historiographical literature on labor
relations in Portugal during the first decades of the 20th century, the
environment remains a subject undervalued in the history of
labor organization and struggles (Barca. 2012; Montrie, 2000, 2008,
Neto, 2004). In this paper, we explore how new relationships with
nature were embedded in anarcho-syndicalism Utopias, values and
struggles for human emancipation. We shall focus first on the
diverse contemporary workers' narratives about future society and
then in the struggles of the fishermen of Setubal for a better life from
the 1890s to the 1930s before they were defeated by industrial and fascist
forces. We show how those struggles have been trigged by the aim of
preserving of fishery resources and illustrates how lowering of social
inequality induced degrowth and promoted sustainability. This
process towards lowering work and extractivism were conscious and
alarm the conservative forces. Industrialists used technology and
State power to overcame those revolutionary menaces from bellow.2019-01-01T00:00:00ZAngolan Guerrillas and Military Training in Socialist Countries: a Prosopographical Approach (1961– 1974)FONSECA, Helder Adegarhttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/251752019-02-27T14:55:16Z2018-09-05T23:00:00ZTitle: Angolan Guerrillas and Military Training in Socialist Countries: a Prosopographical Approach (1961– 1974)
Authors: FONSECA, Helder Adegar
Abstract: This chapter is concerned with the experiences of Angolan `freedom fighters’ who underwent military training in socialist countries, and the impact of those experiences on the Liberation Struggle. Drawing on Portuguese Military and Policy Security Services interrogation Reports covering the period 1961-1974, this prosopographical history of a small group of Angolan fighters and people from other Liberation Movements explores three aspects: the geography and types of military training outside Southern Africa; what happened to Angolan military trainees in what were often regarded as “progressive” and “socialist” Meccas; and, by comparison, the experience in the so-called “heaven” of the
“Simferopol” military camp in Crimea. Three main arguments will be developed: the impact of Eastern and Russian socialist assistance on a specific group of Liberation Movements, including the MPLA; the positive vision of life experienced by the military trainees in socialist society; and military training in the socialist world as an opportunity for social promotion in the guerrilla army, and as legacy that extended to post-colonial Angolan society.2018-09-05T23:00:00Z