“The People are no longer afraid” was the cover of one of the newspapers published on the 12th of May of 1974. On April 25, 1974 a coup carried out by the Armed Forces Movement (MFA), in disagreement with the colonial war that had been going on for thirteen years in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea, put an end to the Portuguese dictatorship, which lasted 48 years under the direction of Antonio Salazar and under the leadership of Marcelo Caetano (after 1968).
Thousands of people immediately left their homes, against the appeal of the military who led the coup – which insisted on the radio for people to stay at home -, especially in Lisbon and Porto, and it was with the people at their front door, shouting "death to fascism”, that the Government was surrounded in the Quartel do Carmo (Barracks of Carmo) in Lisbon; the doors of the prisons of Peniche and Caxias were opened for release all political prisoners; PIDE / DGS, the political police, was dismantled; the headquarters of newspaper of the regime, The Age, was attacked and the censorship was abolished.
The Portuguese empire would fall later in 1974, after mobilizing nearly two million forced workers (in the mines in South Africa, cotton plantations in Angola, among others) and a 13 year war – 1961-1974 – to prevent the independence of the African countries of Angola, Cabo Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau. Having been built to increase the profit of monopolies, as well as to discipline the workforce, the Portuguese dictatorship fell in the hands of the workers in April of 1974. A significant part of the property owners had to flee the country after the nationalizations which were meant to put an end to the workers’ control, which had become generalized starting February of 1975, especially in the banking sector, large metallomechanical factories, etc.
The ankylose structure of the empire – as well as that of its Bonapartist regime – led to the most important social rupture in post-war Europe – so great was the rupture and the length of it that no historian to this day has managed to determine how many workers’ meetings happened during the week after the coup by the MFA because there were hundreds, maybe thousands, and countrywide.
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Sorry to jump to drugs, but, the munchies are very real. Pot does wonders at getting me from "hmm I should probably do a calorie or two at some point" to "everything is delicious and I will eat it."
I self medicated with weed for a decade. It worked really well for me for social anxiety and depression. It allowed me to blame my ND strangeness on being high all the time. This helped me gain self confidence and gave me more social contact with NT people which helped me learn to mask.
It's okay, and nothing to apologize for either since you're trying to help. I sometimes wish I had some weed because it would probably make everything that im dealing with a lot easier. I don't mean to suddenly bring up my mom but that reminded me of her. Since she would smoke it a lot, for like a lot of her back pain and stuff, and a few times she offered for me to smoke with her, but I didn't really want to at the time.
Make yourself drink water, do it in slow sips and very gradually and much something with salt and something with sugar that goes down easy. When you're hydrated again you're more likely to feel hungry. You can also add salt and sugar to your water if that is easier, then have like an oatmeal or something to get your tummy back into action and hopefully munchies follow soon. If you get to where you're hungry make an actual meal if you can, cooking up something solid and doing that lil bit of work with a tasty reward can do wonders. We're apes and like the other mamals we are stoked to do a thing for a treat, really lights up the reward centers. Turn off person, return to monke and eat banana (metaphorically, eat a good thing and feel better)
I did finally getting round to eating something and drinking. And the treat thing sounds like really good advice, but all that sounds good to. and like I'll try to remember this next time to if I ever get to this point again, since I probably will again. Which at the same time im trying not to, just like things are really difficult. but this does need to stop since I can't be doing this esp since I am underweight.
It's an arts and crafts project that you eat when it's done. Also it only takes like, 15-40 minutes for the average food and most of that is waiting for heat to do its thing and you can set a timer and leave for a while.