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Book Review Portugal: The Impossible Revolution Reviewed by Fred Freedman Every revolutionary struggle is accompanied by a flurry of "left"
books on the subject. Portugal is of course no different. The problem
is one of truth, interpretation, and who to believe. The left press
is no less guilty of fraud and lies in reporting revolutionary events
than the bourgeois press. Phil Mailer's Portugal: The Impossible
Revolution? is a clear analysis of the events in Portugal from
April 25, 1974 to November 25, 1976 with a background chapter. It
is clearly and simply written with little rhetoric. It is also openly
libertarian, documenting the struggle of the Portugese people against
both fascism and domination by Leninist parties whose picture of
state power differs little from the fascists. The Portugese revolution
is one of the three or four most important struggles for western
leftists to understand and this goes a long way to shed light on
the inevitable final battle that any successful revolution faces:
the people vs. the parties. In Portugal this took on a special meaning,
as the book makes clear.
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