Translated "Avante!" article by Jorge Cadima, Member of the PCP International Department

Istanbul, 2-3 February 2013

After attending the meeting “Struggle against NATO barbarism in the Middle East and North Africa” on February 2-3 2013 in Istanbul, the communist and workers’ parties make the following joint statement and call on all progressive forces that struggle for peace and justice to undersign and share it.

Portuguese Communist Party Press Office Release

The ongoing foreign military intervention in Mali, spearheaded by France and involving other imperialist powers, is inseparable from the militaristic and interventionist path of NATO, the European Union and its main powers which, in the context of the ever-deeper crisis of capitalism and through several processes of increasing foreign intervention, militarization of the continent – in which the US