Photographs, Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Editor’s note on the English edition
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. The Seeds of Change
3. 25 April 1974: ‘The People are No Longer Afraid’
4. Who Governs?
5. The Anti-Colonial Movements and the Myth of a ‘Bloodless Revolution’
6. Strikes and their Reverberations
7. Self-Management and the Struggle Against Redundancies
8. Women in a Democracy are Not Mere Decoration: Social Reproduction and Private Life in the Revolution
9. Artists and the Revolution
10. Workers’ Commissions and Unions
11. ‘Here is the Nursery’ – Urban Struggles and Residents’ Commissions
12. Workers’ Control, 11 March and Nationalisations
13. The Birth of the Welfare State
14. Scheming for Power
15. The Land for its Workers: Agrarian Reform
16. The ‘Hot Summer’ of 1975 and the Fifth Government’s Frail Governance
17. Spain and other ‘Links in the Chain’
18. The Crisis
19. Democracy and Revolution: The Meaning of the Carnation Revolution
20. In Celebration
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author