07. Os Caça-Comunistas

November 1933 marked a turning point for the Estado Novo and its new political police, the PVDE. As Oliveira Salazar consolidated power under the new constitution and António Ferro promoted the regime, the PVDE launched mass arrests of political opponents. The episode examines the alliance between anarcho-syndicalists and communists leading to the revolutionary strike of 18 January 1934, the last major attempt to overthrow Salazar's government. It also explores how the Portuguese Communist Party built its clandestine network and how the political police infiltrated it. Finally, it investigates why inspectors Fernando Gouveia and José Gonçalves became infamous as the regime's feared "communist hunters."