“…social change, the context of the Revolution offered social workers the opportunity to foster their own radical agency. The Marxist, or, rather say anti-functionalist imprint of the Latin-American Reconceptualization Movement was suddenly brought to the field of practice, trading charity based intervention for a social work framed from below, working alongside grassroots mobilization, focused in empowering communities (Pereira, 2016;Saracostti et al, 2012) and promoting democratization (Ammann, 1988). Thus, the Revolution granted Portuguese social workers not just the necessary political opportunity, but also the institutional backup and social frames to deploy what can be identified as a radical form of intervention, at times referred in literature as alternative (Amaro, 2015).…”