The PCP appealed this Friday to the Young Portuguese will intensify the fight for peace and criticized the foreign policy of the successive governments of the PS, PSD and CDS-PP, which “is dangerously involving” the country in Washington’s “aggressive militarist strategy”.
In a statement, the communist leader Rui Fernandes evoked “the nuclear horror” on August 6 and 9, 1945, in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, “at a time when imperialism is fomenting tension in international relations, with expression in the escalation of war.”
By evoking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the PCP appeals to the Portuguese people, and in particular to the youth, intensify the struggle for peace and disarmamentfrom the beginning so that the US [Estados Unidos da América, a NATO [Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte, da qual Portugal faz parte] and the EU [União Europeia] end their strategy of confrontation and stop instigating the war in Ukraine,” added the member of the Political Commission of the Communist Central Committee.
The PCP also calls on Moscow and “all interested parties to urgently embark on the path of negotiation”, in the sense of reach a political solution to the conflict which broke out on February 24, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The party also knitted criticism of the foreign policy “of successive governments” socialists, social democrats and centrists, which “has compromised national sovereignty and independence and is dangerously involving” the country in what the PCP says is the “aggressive militarist strategy of imperialism” attributed to Washington.
From the perspective of the communist leadership, Portugal must fight for general disarmament“including the abolition of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, for the dissolution of political-military blocs and for a “peace policy”, an expression used by the PCP since the beginning of the war to position itself against the conflict in Ukraine.
And he adds: “It is particularly significant that the Portuguese Government continues to refuse to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”.
“Look at how the instigation of war and the drift of sanctions imposed by the US, the EU and NATO are dragging the world into an even more serious economic and social situation, with the rampant speculationthe vertiginous increase in the prices of energy, food and other essential goods, the attack on living conditions and the worsening of poverty”, argued Rui Fernandes.
Given the “complex and dangerous international situation” that the world is experiencing, “it is necessary and urgent to give more force to the struggle for peace and disarmament,” the communist leader once again appealed.
Source: Observadora
