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The flag is a red field with a device in the canton that consists of
3/4ths of a cogwheel and a horizontally layed hoe,
both in blue, a yellow star in the free quarter of the cogwheel, and the
initials "UDP" in yellow below.
Jorge Candeias, 04 Sep 1997
The Democratic People’s Union (UDP - União Democrática Popular) is
a maoist ultra-left party, that was able to elect 1 Member of Parliament in
several elections in the past, and has been traditionally the 5th party with
percentages around 2-5%. This party has nearly disappeared in the last few
elections.
Jorge Candeias, 4 Sep 1997
This is now one of the members of the Left
Block.
Jorge Candeias, 20 May 1999
![[Democratic and Popular Union v.1975]](../images/p/pt}udp75!.gif)
2:3 image by Jorge Candeias, 26 Feb 2005
As I've told you a few days ago, in 1974-75 Portugal was under
revolutionary turmoil and a lot of political organizations popped up,
especially in the area of far-left. One of them, and one of the most
successeful ones, was UDP (União Democrática Popular, Popular Democratic
Union) that lives to this day and was even capable of electing 1 deputee to
the parliament for some years. In 99 it was one of the organizations that
founded the Left Bloc (Bloco de Esquerda, BE),
currently the 5th Portuguese party with 8 MPs and nearly 7% of the votes. UDP has
its dissolution congress marked to the near future (I forgot which month it is, but it's
either next month, April or May 2005).
All this to present you a poster issued by the party in 1975 (pt!udp75.jpg)
that shows the typical revolutionary art that was very common up to late
80's, depicting struggling masses with their working tools erected as
weapons and flags. Usually, these flags are red, or red with revolutionary
inscriptions (occasionally with the names of the parties or organizations
involved), but this one shows a single star in the canton. A white star.
This poster's intent was to announce a rally to be held in Lisbon to
protest against NATO manoeuvres that were to take place (and really did
take place) off the coast of Portugal, wich was seen by the left-wing
movements, especially the revolutionary ones, as a threat. And they might
have been right.
The flag doesn't seem to be relevant to this specific struggle, though.
Also, I don't know if it was used by UDP at the time, but I think it may be
simply a generic socialist flag, a bit more sophisticated than usual.
Anyway, I believe it's worth noting that the symbol the UDP had at the
time, which can be seen at the lower right corner of the poster (black
hammer and sickle with a red flag flying to the right, UDP superimposed on
the flag in black letters, hardly visible red star over the hammer's head),
wasn't suitable to include in a red flag. So it's possible that this was
the flag used by the UDP back then. Not very likely, but possible.
Jorge Candeias, 26 Feb 2005
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