José Manuel Durão Barroso Maoist days

José Manuel Durão Barroso, now President of the European Commission, became politically active after the Portuguese Carnation Revolution of 1974, in the Marxist-Leninist Students Federation, the now extinct youth wing of the PCTP/MRPP (Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers/Reorganising Movement of the Proletariat), a Maoist Revolutionary Party connoted at a certain time in Portugal with having liaisons to terrorist actions. Assuming Barroso a political position that was in accordance with the country’s