Portuguese Communist Party

Dear guests!
Dear friends and comrades!

Warm greetings to all of you who are here with the strength of your presence. Greetings to all the builders who participated in the days of work with that unique militancy and generosity, to all the participants and visitors of our Avante! Festival. A especial greeting to the youth and the JCP, always with their massive presence, their indispensable contribution in raising this space of freedom and ensuring its exemplary functioning.

Articulating at every step with the relevant authorities and assessing the evolution of the epidemiological situation, the PCP will hold the “Avante!” Festival with the responsibility for which it is renowned, with an educational approach to the prevention and protection which continues to be necessary, and ensuring all the necessary sanitary measures.

The holding of the Avante! Festival is always, and this year in particular, an important political affirmation of the exercise of democratic rights and intervention in defence of the interests of workers and people.

1. More than the deep fractures and contradictions that run through the European Union, the European Council meeting highlighted the very nature of an integration process that intrinsically generates inequalities, divergences and asymmetries, in which capitalist competition in the single market prevails over any prospect of solidarity between States, which in practice is confirmed to be non-existent.