ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the 1960s, part of the Portuguese youth radicalizes on the far right as a consequence of two events: the outbreak of the War in Africa (1961) and the rise of the anti-regime opposition stances among the students and the intellectual milieu. In those years, the generation coming from the 1940s and the 1950s launches new editorial projects like the journal Tempo Presente. Meanwhile, their youngest comrades create different extreme-right groups like Movimento Jovem Portugal, Frente dos Estudantes Nacionalistas, and Jovem Europa, among others. Each group shows a specific set of ideological features and links with the New State regime as well as international relations with the European far right in the common struggle against the decolonization process by the European colonial empires. Under this umbrella, European extreme-right refugees in Lisbon, like the French militants from the Organisation Armée Secrete (OAS) or the Italian neo-fascists from the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI), are protected and financed by the Salazar’s regime to organize transnational structures like Aginter Press, the Voz do Ocidente (Voice of the West), and Convergencia Ocidental (Western Convergence), among others, particularly active in the counter-subversion against international communism.
