Motion «Against imperialism and war, for peace and internationalist solidarity»

Motion approved unanimously by the XXI Congress of the PCP

The deepening of the structural crisis of capitalism and the relative decline of the US and other capitalist powers are leading imperialism’s exploitation and aggressivity to new levels. Workers and people live a dangerous period.

The reality confirms that capitalism is a system built on exploitation, oppression and war. In [their] words and actions, the main centers of imperialism proclaim that the order of international relations arose from the Victory over Nazi fascism has to be replaced by “the law of the strongest”. They try to impose, by force, norms which violate countries and People’s sovereignty. From Middle East to Latin America, from Far East to Europe and to Africa, they scatter interference, subversion and the war. They promote openly fascist forces, as in Ukraine. The US, NATO and the EU threat all of those who do not subordinate to them and claim their intention to prevent that countries – as the People’s Republic of China – can develop themselves accordingly with their specific conditions. The arms race and the multiplication of imperialism’s aggressive actions enclosure a real danger of triggering enormous conflicts.

The imperialism’s aggressivity at an international level is inseparable of the exploitative and oppressive offensive against workers and People in each country. The false proclamation of democracy and rights mask power systems that serve the monopolist capital, at the costs of a growing social inequality and injustice. The crisis of 2008 showed that those who have less are sacrificed on behalf of big capital profits. The current COVID-19 pandemic exposes greatly this reality. The drama lived in most capitalist powers clearly shows that people’s well-being is not a priority, and, on the contrary, the offensive against workers’ rights and living conditions has been intensified. Impoverishment has spread, while multimillionaires get richer. That is also why [they] seek to restrict freedoms and [they] accentuate anticommunist, while promote reactionary and fascistic ideas and forces.

In the year that celebrates the 75th anniversary of Victory Day, the 21th Congress of PCP underlines the role of the communists in the struggle for peace, against Nazi-fascism and imperialism’s aggressions.

Acknowledging the unique contribution of USSR, the Red Army and the soviet people to defeat the Nazi-fascist barbary, the 21th Congress of PCP recalls that, all over the World, communists have always been in the front line of fights and victories that meant heavy losses to imperialism, that reached historical advances in social and national liberation processes, that achieved and proclaimed principles of international peace and cooperation, embodied in the Charter of the United Nations.

The 21th Congress of PCP, true to the principles that have guided the Party throughout its one hundred years of History, asserts the solidarity of the Portuguese communists with the workers who, all over the World, fight against exploitation, for their rights, for social progress and for socialism. [The 21th Congress] asserts its solidarity with the People who raise in the defense of their sovereignty and resist to the imperialism’s interferences and aggressions. [The 21th Congress] asserts its solidarity with the heroic people of Cuba who persist on building socialism and on resisting to the US blockade; with the martyr Palestinian people to whom their right to an independent and sovereign State, with the 1967’s borders and capital in East Jerusalem, has been denied for decades; with the resistant people from Syria, Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Nicaragua, Brazil, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Western Sahara, Cyprus, Belarus, DPR of Korea and Vietnam, and from many other countries, [people] who are victims of imperialism’s interference and aggression, who fight for their rights, who seek for their sovereign development. [The 21th Congress] asserts its solidarity with all those who struggle for peace, against war, against NATO and for its dissolution. To all we assure they can continue to count on the solidarity of the Portuguese communists.

No to war!
Long live Peach and Internationalist Solidarity!
The struggle goes on!

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