Luís Maria Kalidás da Costa Barreto GOL (16 October 1932 – 30 October 2020) was a Portuguese accountant and unionist. Barreto was one of the founders of Portuguese trades union confederation, the CGTP, some five decades earlier, and died on 30 October 2020 in Castanheira de Pera, fourteen days after his 88th birthday.

Biography

Kalidás Barreto was born on 16 October 1932, in

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, Évora district.

, distrito de Évora. The son of the Goan intellectual Adeodato Barreto, his third name was a reference to Kalidasa, a renowned classical Sanskrit poet and playwright.

Education

He underwent the Complementary Accounting and Commerce Course in

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, and settled in Castanheira de Pera. He worked as a commercial director in several companies in that region, namely in the textile industry.

Political participation

He began his political participation early. He participated in initiatives to oppose the then long-term dictatorship of

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and

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, as a member of the support committee for the candidacy of

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to the Presidency of the Republic of

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, in 1958. He also organized the Democratic Opposition in

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in 1975 representing the Socialist Party. He later moved away from the Socialist Party and participated, in 1978, in the founding of the Union of the Left for Socialist Democracy ( União da Esquerda para a Democracia Socialista, UEDS), later coming closer to the PS. A trade unionist, he was among the founders of the Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores Portugueses (National Confederation of Portuguese Workers, CGTP) in 1970, after which he led the Organização Sindical de Têxteis do Centro (Center's Textile Union Organization). On 25 April 2004, the 30th anniversary of the 1974 Revolution, he was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Freedom, by the then Portuguese President

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. After actively participating in the formation of the Intersindical Nacional (National Intersindical_, and later the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP), in 1970, Kalidás Barreto led the Sindicato dos Têxteis do Centro (Textile Union of the center), and was the national director of CGTP and technical advisor for Portuguese missions to the

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(ILO). He contributed to the regional press, mainly to newspapers in

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, was an associate provider for the National Institute for the Use of Free Times (INATEL) and has authored several books. A cultural promoter in

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, which he contributed to for many years. He was the beneficiary of the National Institute for the Use of Free Time or Instituto Nacional para o Aproveitamento dos Tempos Livres (INATEL).

Published works

* ''Revistas de Costumes Locais'', 1958 * ''Lenda da Princesa Peralta'', 1964 * ', 1983 * ''A Organização Profissional dos Trabalhadores Têxteis de Leiria e Coimbra'', 1987 * ''Dr. Manuel Diniz Henriques'', 1987 * ''Monografia do Concelho de Castanheira de Pera'', 1989 * ''Dr. Ernesto Marreca David - o Homem e a Obra'', 1993 * ''Emprego, Modernização e Desenvolvimento'', 1996 * ''Fábrica da Várzea - Projecto de Museu Têxtil em Castanheira de Pera'', 1999 * ''Os Trabalhadores Laneiros do Distrito de Leiria'', 2009 * ''Os Presos políticos de Castanheira de Pera - 1949 Não Apaguem a Memória'', 2009 * ''Os Deputados de Leiria na Assembleia Constituinte, 1975-1976'' (pref.

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), 2010 * ''Manuel Lopes de Almeida : um castanheirense na luta pela República em 5 de outubro de 1910'', 2011

References

External links

Provedor do beneficiário da Fundação INATEL : Kalidás Barreto
on the site of Fundação INATEL {{DEFAULTSORT:Barreto, Kalidas Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians Portuguese trade unionists Portuguese people of Goan descent 1932 births 2020 deaths Goan society People from Montemor-o-Novo People from Leiria District