MJP

 In 1961,  for example, the weekly Agora (1961-1969) hit the news-stands; the first far-right newspaper 

published since the failure of A Nação in 1948. Zarco Moniz Ferreira also took advantage of this 

climate of crisis and mobilisation, and organised the Movimento Jovem Portugal in a hierarchical 

fashion, with a national triumvirate presided over by himself, assisted by Manuel de Almeida 

Damásio (for Lisbon) and José Valle de Figueiredo (for Coimbra). Their repertoire of activities, 

concentrated in Lisbon and Coimbra, was limited to fly-posting manifestos, the distribution of 

pamphlets and painting slogans on walls. In 1961, the MJP was extended to the south bank of the 

Tagus, with the inclusion of the so-called Facho de Almada. Led by Vasco Lourinho, this nucleus 

consisted of some thirty young students and workers. It became official on 17 January 1961, with 

oaths sworn on the bible and the flag of the fourteen founding members. Still in 1961, the MJP 

also became active in Porto, due to some students from the D. Manuel II Secondary School, led 

by Jaime Nogueira Pinto, who quickly assembled around a hundred young people from various 

institutions (Pinto 2008: 16). In the summer of 1961, the official organ of the MJP, Ataque, reported 

the creation of nuclei in Trafaria, Vale Maior, Albergaria-a-Velha, Guimarães and some new cells 

in the high schools of Coimbra.

(Editorial, "Vida do Movimento", Ataque, no. 2, Ano I, June 1961, p. 4 and Ataque, no. 3, Ano I, June/August 1961,)

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