Portuguese Communist Party celebrates accomplishments at Avante festival This year marks the 40th anniversary of the festival, after the overthrow of the Fascist dictatorship of Salazar and Caetano, with the “Carnation Revolution” in 1974, which in turn led to the approval of a new constitution in 1976 which has allowed the left and the workers’ movement to flourish. The first Avante! Festival was celebrated in that year. The Avante! Festival combines...
Portuguese Communists hail victory on work week The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) has hailed the passage of national legislation which restores the work week for public sector workers to 35 hours. The previous government, of right-wing Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, had raised the work week to 40 hours in deference to the wishes of Portuguese and transnational capital. In a speech to the parliament, PCP member Rita Rato pointed...
Brazil Communists denounce government’s attacks on Venezuela The Communist Party of Brazil (PC do B),Partido Comunista do Brasil) repeats its denunciation of the position taken by the country’s foreign minister, Aloysio Nunes, in the effort by the right and the United States to have Venezuela removed from the Organization of American States (OAS). PC do B International Relations Secretary José Reinaldo Carvalho, in a statement on March 14, pointed...
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The following presentation was given by CPUSA co-chair Rossana Cambron to the People's World "People's Needs, Not Pentagon Greed" Town Hall on November 10, 2023. “Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears! … We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained...
The environmental crises the world faces are getting worse, fast, and are part of the general crisis of capitalism. We can build people's movements to end this crisis now.
St. Pat's, local ceasefire actions; "Uncommitted" vote builds pressure; protests in Israel, U.S. weaken Netanyahu; Canada halts weapons to Israel; local, Congressional ceasefire tracker.
The Communist Party USA must do what it can to bring attention to and fight back against the fascist tactic of xenophobia and anti-migrant sentiment before it's too late.
Our fraternal parties in Palestine and Israel are best suited to present analysis on the issues on the ground. Not only are they best suited, it is their right to self determination to lead the struggle, and it is our job as comrades to follow their lead.
Palestine is the site of the most important anti-imperialist struggle of today; Palestine is the Vietnam of the 1960s. Every single communist in the United States must — and with the most unapologetic, most comprehensive, and most unrestrained attitude — support Palestine. Palestine must get its liberation.