"In these uncertain, dangerous times, with the risk of setbacks, with possibilities of advances, the PCP assumes its long-standing struggle, with the workers and the people, resisting, fighting for every right, for every advance. With every action, every initiative, every struggle being part of the millennial process of social emancipation. Assuming and projecting into the future the historical feat of the struggle of the Portuguese people, the action of the workers' movement, the struggle of all workers, the unforgettable process of the April Revolution and its values that inspire the advanced democracy, political, economic, social and cultural, based on national independence that we defend and pointing the way to a new society, to socialism and communism. "

The speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party, at the rally of the "Avante!" Festival will be fully translated into English.