195:, who had returned to Portugal after an exile of around eight years in Paris. They met clandestinely in a chapel, opened for them by a sympathetic priest. Neves says that Lamas had a profound effect on her. In the same year, she was selected to be director of the Press Office of the Union of Office Employees of Lisbon and the south of Portugal. At the same time, she was part of a team, which, in a semi-clandestine fashion, created in October 1971 the
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125:(PCP) while still at High School at the age of 17. At school she caused a scandal by writing a play and having it performed in front of the teachers, in which an old student recalls his passage through high school, reliving the absurd prohibitions and hidden love affairs. She then studied Philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the
308:. Neves was principal editor until 1980, when she was appointed deputy director, a position held until 1984, assuming the direction of the magazine, from 1984 to 1991, after the death Maria Lamas. She also contributed to a wide range of other papers and magazines and produced radio programmes for
275:. A parliamentary candidate for the opposition in 1973, she was arrested for handing out leaflets and only released the day before the election. Neves was arrested for a third time in the early days of April 1974. She was released on 25 April 1974 as a result of the
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Neves remained an active communist for some time after the
Carnation Revolution, playing leading roles in several bodies associated with the Communist Party. She then became part of the editorial staff of the Communist newspaper
340:, a Lisbon-based private university that is owned by a company that administers universities in Portuguese-speaking countries. She was also a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the 20th Century, at the
259:(Women of a time still present), was seized by the police from the printing press. From this book, her short story "Deolinda" was selected for an Anthology of the Best Contemporary Portuguese Writing and published in 1994.
121:(Foundation for Joy at Work), a state-sponsored body, and made her mother stop being a primary school teacher in order to assume what the state then considered to be her natural role of "wife and mother". Neves joined the
243:(Economic Activities). She travelled to France to report on the conditions faced by Portuguese emigrants, also using the trip as an opportunity to build up a network of people opposed to the Portuguese regime.
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in 2001–02. She was a member of the board of the
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