AGAINST THE ESTADO NOVO AND THE NUEVO ESTADO. THE IBERIAN ANTIFASCIST STUDENT MOVEMENT

In this article we aim to compare the evolution of the Portuguese and Spanish student movements during their dictatorships in sixties and seventies. We turn to primary sources (including those of the students) as well as specialized bibliography to elaborate a comparative history in which we establish the main phases and the peculiarities which characterized the bustle of the times within an international political and cultural context. Even though there are distinctive features within each country, we argue that the student movements of the Iberian Peninsula at that time share common features that went from an initial stage of "student autonomy" to a highly politicized phase in which the main concern lay outside the university, which was preceded by the dissolution of the unitarian movement due to the spread of extreme-left organizations in the university.