Armed Forces Movement

Armed Forces Movement
Movimento das Forças Armadas
Emblem of the MFA as used in government propaganda during the Provisory Governments and the PREC.
Leader	Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
Dates active	1974
Active regions	Portugal
Ideology	Anti-fascism Communism Socialism
Political position	Left-wing to far-left

A mural dedicated to the MFA, it reads: "Towards freedom. Long live the 25th of April!"

The Armed Forces Movement (Portuguese: Movimento das Forças Armadas; MFA) was an organization of lower-ranking officers in the Portuguese Armed Forces that overthrew the Estado Novo dictatorship on 25 April 1974, an event known as the Carnation Revolution. This ended the Portuguese Colonial War in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau, leading to the independence of those countries and Portugal's other overseas territories of Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor. The MFA instituted the National Salvation Junta as the provisional government from April 25 1974 to March 14 1975, when it was replaced by the Revolutionary Council. A new constitution was adopted in April 1976.