Overview

In the 1970s, across Europe, left-wing armed movements thrived: ETA in Spain, the IRA in Ireland, the Red Brigades in Italy, and the Baader-Meinhof Group in Germany. Portugal would have to deal with a similar phenomenon in the 1980s with the FP-25 (Popular Forces April 25th), a far-left organization defending the conquests of the 1974 Carnation Revolution, which ended 48 years of dictatorship. The organization gradually lost touch with the people it aimed to protect, and was dismantled by a massive police operation in 1984.