Portuguese Communist Party

We have opened the doors of the forty-second edition of the Avante! Festival. We do it with great joy at seeing the result of a collective work erected inch by inch with the readiness and militant determination, with the willingness and passion of many friends of the Party, many friends of the Avante! Festival - who build, organise and enjoy it, and take it as their own, driven by the values of April, of solidarity, of peace, of social justice, of the struggle for a better life, for a free and sovereign country.

The decision by the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) to exclude Lula da Silva as a candidate for presidential elections in Brazil is part of a political process that, under the guise of a "justice" recognizably involved in the institutional coup d'état - begun in 2016, with the dismissal of the legitimate President Dilma Rousseff - seeks to arbitrarily prevent him from being a candidate in the elections that take place on October 7.

The PCP condemns the brutal bombings by the Israeli aviation in the Gaza Strip that left a trail of death and destruction in these last two days and which constitute yet another of Israel's many crimes and provocations in a consistent violation of international legality and the rights of the martyred Palestinian people.

It also condemns the joint criminal attack of Saudi Arabian and United Arab Emirates’ forces, with the active support of the United States, on a school bus near the city of Dahyan, in Yemen, causing at least 50 deaths, mostly children, and many dozens injured.

1. On August 6 and 9, 1945, US imperialism committed one of the worst crimes in the History of Mankind: the nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Within a few seconds, tens of thousands of people were killed in an unprecedented massacre. In the following months and years, the death toll would rise to hundreds of thousands. Many others suffered terrible physical and psychological after effects, which also passed on to following generations.