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The "Academic Crisis" began when, in 1962, the Portuguese Fascist Regime , fearing the growing popularity of democratic ideas among the students, carried out the boycott and enclosure of several student associations and organizations, including the important National Secretariat of Portuguese Students. Most members of this organization were intellectual communist militants that were persecuted and forbbiden to continue their university studies. The students, with a strong aid from the Portuguese Communist Party responded with demonstrations that culminated on March 24 with a huge student demonstration in Lisbon that was brutally suppressed by the shock police, which led to hundreds of student injuries. Immediately thereafter, the students began a strike that became a mark in the resistance against the regime. This happenings were called, ''Academic Crisis'' ( Portuguese : ''Crise Académica''). After the Revolution of 1974, 24 March would become the National Day of the Students, being celebrated every year, mainly by university students. |
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