Avante! Festival

Context Its creation was thought shortly after the Carnation Revolution, where the Portuguese Communist Party leaves its clandestine status and the Estado Novo dictatorship ends. It exists in the context of the dismantling and nationalization of the big economical groups, the agrarian reform with the expropriation of the big latitudinarians and the creation of the Collective Units of Production controlled by the PCP, achievements of workers' rights, and the most relevant reason to understand how the Avante! Festival started – the «big campaigns of cultural dynamization». The festival would allow for the making of cultural and socializing initiatives as a part of political intervention, continuing the practice that was previously clandestine before April 25. == Editions ==

1976 edition The first edition of Avante! was in September 1976, in the old International Fair of Lisbon. The location was used by the PCP in 1974/75 for New Year's parties and initiatives of the Avante! newspaper. However, there were problems with its small size and security problems, namely a bomb attack three days before its opening. == Gallery ==

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