Conducting the History of Portugal Seminar «50 years of the Carnation Revolution: an evaluation

On April 30 at the Danube Institute in Budapest, the seminar "50 years of the Carnation Revolution: an evaluation" was held, where the person in charge of the opening was the Director of the institution, John O Sullivan, who mentioned his personal experience with the journalistic coverage of the Carnation Revolution in 1975, as a journalist at The Daily Telegraph, highlighting its historical importance given that this movement sought to overthrow the authoritarian government of General Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, combining historical and romantic elements, with parallels with other European revolutions. The debate arose as to whether the perceptions and justifications of that time were accurate or whether they have been reinterpreted over time.

Then it was the turn of the Editor-in-Chief of the European Conservative, Alvino-Mario Fantini, who assumes the role of moderator and begins by reflecting on his dual perspectives on revolutions, recognizing both their attractiveness and their potential danger, highlighting his personal connection with a past revolution in Bolivia and how this influences his critical vision of the revolutionary processes.
The Anti-Fascist motive is argued during the Portuguese Revolution where it is mentioned that it was constant during the Revolution and debated among commentators, among whom are also Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Bradford Thomas Gallagher, about the recent emergence of the conservative Chega party as a fascist threat, this is discarded and more as a possibility of perception more outside of Portugal than inside; the party leader, a former lawyer, is difficult to characterize as authoritarian.

There was discussion about the abandonment of innocent losers in the revolutionary process, people of different racial origins in Portugal were quickly thrown into oblivion by the captains after the Carnation Revolution. There was also debate about the disappearance of promising multiracial societies in Africa, which was a great historical calamity, where current agitators try to subvert democracies in the northern hemisphere (Woke movements and Agenda 2030) while Portugal has successfully avoided serious racial conflicts.
The military role during the revolution is described as a useless vanguard.
where brand new officers projected to be military guardians and defenders of popular power, but this turned out to be incoherent, so much so that among the main reasons for the revolutionary failure was the fratricidal nature of the extreme left and the intense rivalries with mutual hatred between revolutionary parties led to the miserable end of the revolution.