"They started shooting. My father left the barbershop and was soon killed": the day that the miners of Aljustrel revolted against the slavery of the New State.

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"They started shooting. My father left the barbershop and was soon killed": the day that the miners of Aljustrel revolted against the slavery of the New State.

Alentejo was, before the April 25 revolution, a sort of clandestine nucleus of the also illegal Portuguese Communist Party, and Aljustrel, in the Beja district, concentrated a number of activists who, in one way or another, suffered consequences, and the village was always dependent on the work of the mine, a slave work that was relieved over time by the use of more machinery, and before the revolution, 15 PIDE prisoners and two GNR assassinatio…