Excerpt from the CC Statement on the international situation - Meeting of the PCP Central Committee of 29th November 2010
The international situation is still marked by the deepening of the economic and financial crisis of capitalism, expressed by a situation of prolonged economic recession in the economies of the capitalist triad (USA, European Union and Japan) and by a residual growth of the international economy. Simultaneously, there is the intensification of a real social war against workers and peoples in which the large capitalists interests mobilized all its resources and respective instruments of ideological conditioning and domination and of repression aiming towards a historic regression of social and labor rights and an increase of exploitation.
The G20 Summit and the failure of its announced objectives confirm the nonexistence, within the limits of the capitalist system, of real profound solutions for a situation marked by a great volatility in the international economy, by an explosive social situation and by economic and monetary tensions and conflicts whose deepening can have unpredictable consequences for workers and peoples, for the more fragile and dependent economies, and for peace and international security.
The Central Committee lively salutes the workers and peoples who confronted with the most violent attack of the last decades against their rights and living conditions, are mobilizing and struggling for their rights. It particularly salutes the workers and peoples of Europe who in the last trimester developed important social and mass struggles in many European countries, struggles that were systematically silenced by the dominant media.
PCP alerts to the gravity of the conclusions of the NATO Summit held in Lisbon that represents new threats and dangers against the peoples of the World and confirms the new qualitative leap in its reinforcement as an aggressive alliance, responsible for several foci of instability and tension. The Summit's decisions confirm a militarist and securitarian drift by the main global imperialist powers faced with the profound contradictions and historic limits that confront the capitalist system, and which are indissociable from the objectives of maintaining imperialism’s economic and geostrategic domination in a framework of evident economic decline of the main capitalist powers - particularly the EUA - and are inseparable from the attempts of containing and crushing the resistance of workers and peoples against capitalist exploitation and oppression.
The conclusions of the Lisbon NATO Summit configure, therefore, with a new strategic concept and overall, a new dangerous "flight forward" of an organization whose existence, enlargement and "transmutation" collides, in an increasingly open manner, with the rights of peoples, International Law and the United Nations Organization, such that its continuity is evermore unacceptable.
The Central Committee reiterates the demand for the dissolution of NATO and the withdrawal of Portugal from its military structure. It condemns the Portuguese Government and the President of the Portuguese Republic for the realization of this NATO Summit, fact that constituted a grave expression of its collaborationism and submission with the strategy of the main imperialist world powers and an increasing involvement of the Country in the
militarist aims of NATO. This attitude is an unacceptable act of clear disrespect for the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic.
The Central Committee lively salutes the more than 100 organizations that united in the Campaign "YES TO PEACE, NO TO NATO", developed over one year, and an exemplary action of information, intervention and mobilization in the defense of peace and against NATO, confirmed in the Demonstration of last November 20th, where more than 30 thousand people participated. The success of this demonstration, the determination, combativeness and serenity expressed by its organizers and participants, and the ample international support and solidarity it received, constitute an important victory of the Portuguese peace movement and an historic moment in the struggle in Portugal for Peace, against militarism and NATO. A victory in the struggle for peace and against all those that attempted, by intimidation, disinformation and divisiveness, to demobilize the movement of Portuguese workers and people from writing an additional important page in the struggle of peoples against imperialism.
PCP's Central Committee expresses its solidarity with all the peoples struggling for peace, against aggressions and imperialist interventions, for their self-determination and their inalienable rights. It condemns the recent repressive actions for the Moroccan Government and security forces and reiterates its profound solidarity with the people of Western Sahara for their right to self-determination and independence.
The grave dangers resulting from the strong response of imperialism to the capitalist crisis are opposed by the peoples through their progressive and revolutionary struggle. In several points of the world, peoples take into their own hand the defense of their rights, of the sovereignty and independence of their countries, and resist in the most varied forms, imposing setbacks on the strategy of imperialist domination. It is in this context that PCP continues to develop its action aiming for the reinforcement of the anti-imperialist front and the international communist and revolutionary movement, namely through its committed participation and contribution towards the success of the 12th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties that will take place on the 3rd, 4th and 5thof December of 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa, as well as the XVII World Festival of Youth and Students, from the 13th to the 21st of December, in that country.
