luta armada

Hotel Europa

Portugal

Luta Armada continues Hotel Europa’s investigation into the recent past, analysing political projects that resorted to violent actions such as bank robberies, bombings, sabotage, among others, as a form of struggle.
This project is based on an extensive collection of testimonies from people who were active in these organisations, as well as research into documents about their actions, creating a multidisciplinary documentary theatre show.
This work begins by describing the actions of groups that saw armed struggle as the only way to end fascism and Portuguese colonialism, such as LUAR, Brigadas Revolucionárias and ARA; secondly, the far-right groups that became known as the bomb network and which were active during the PREC period between 1974 and 1975, such as ELP, MDLP and the Maria da Fonte Movement, which allegedly fought against the threat of the establishment of a communist regime in the country; but also the independence movements of the Azores and Madeira, which opted for violent action, such as the FLA and FLAMA; ending with the last group that began its activity in 1980, the FP-25, which fought to restore socialism.

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