The Portuguese Revolutionary Process a Model to Follow for the "Left of the Left" in Spain?

Abstract

The generic studies about the impact of the Portuguese revolution at the end of Franco’s dictatorship and the beginning of the Spanish Transition are increasing historiographical tendency, due to important evidences of their influences. This influence is based on the same geostrategic reality and the traditional mutual concerns between the Iberian states. However, there is a field in this matter that is still less investigated, such as the net effect that this exceptional process had in certain parts of the Spanish society. Thereby, we pretend to find the radical left reactions about the Carnation Revolution and the subsequent Ongoing Revolutionary Process, when the main Spanish left parties (including the PCE) started to be opposed to the Portuguese democratization path. These reactions could be different in all these leftist organizations that kept “revolutionary” in that moment, or refused the “Eurocommunism”, like the Spanish Communist Workers’ Party (PCOE), Workers’ Revolutionary Organization (ORT), Spanish Work Party (PTE). According to this aim, we are trying to identify the vision they had of what happened in Portugal as well as the influence both in their ideological corpus and the political practice of the Spanish "left of the left".