National Syndicalists (Portugal)

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National Syndicalist Movement
Movimento Nacional Sindicalista
FounderFrancisco Rolão Preto
Founded1932; 92 years ago (1932)
Banned29 July 1934; 89 years ago (29 July 1934)[1]
Preceded byIntegralismo Lusitano
NewspaperRevolução
IdeologyNational syndicalism
Clerical fascism
Political positionFar-right
ReligionCatholic Church
Colours  Blue
Party flag

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The National Syndicalist Movement (Portuguese: Movimento Nacional-Sindicalista) was a political movement that briefly flourished in Portugal in the 1930s. Stanley G. Payne defines them as a fascist movement in his typography.[3]

Development

The MNS emerged amongst a group of students who were associated with the Liga Nacional 28 de maio but had grown disillusioned with its right-wing economic platform.

Spanish Galicia to Portugal, a further source of tension with the Falangist.[4] Brigadas de choque, a form of stormtrooper organisation, were established by the MNS although rarely utilised, with street battles not really a feature of Portuguese politics at the time.[5]
They grew rapidly in their early stages and were estimated to have 25,000 members by 1933, 5,000 more than the governing National Union.[4] The National Syndicalists were fairly critical of the regime of António de Oliveira Salazar and the Estado Novo.

Salazar allowed the group to hold a national conference in November 1933 and indicating if they abandoned open syndicalism he would be prepared to bring them into his National Union en bloc.[5] Whilst this proposal was not accepted by the MNS as a group many members approved, resulting in a split within the movement in early 1934, with many of those in favour of the moderate approach rewarded with positions within Salazar's government.[5] Salazar announced the dissolution of the group on July 29, 1934, condemning the group for its defense of syndicalism.

Salazar used to call the MNS "National Communists".[citation needed]

Despite this official end the National Syndicalists carried on in secret and Rolão Preto helped to lead a

União Nacional
.

See also

  • National Syndicalism

References

Bibliography

  • ISBN 088033-9829
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  • Costa Pinto, Antonio. 2019. "The Portuguese “Blue Shirts” and Salazar’s “New State”" in Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century. Springer.
  • S. U. Larsen, B. Hagtvet & J. P. Myklebust, Who Were the Fascists: Social Roots of European Fascism, Oslo, 1980
  • ISBN 0-203-50132-2
    .

Footnotes

  1. ^ (officially)
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2019-04-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Payne 2001, p. 15.
  4. ^ a b c d e Payne, p. 314
  5. ^ a b c Payne, p. 315
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