On behalf of the leadership of the Party, I extend a warm, fraternal and heartfelt greeting to all of you, to all students and youth. It is a source of pride to be here and to know that the young communists are, each passing day, stronger, more connected to the youthful masses.

Participation in the meeting of leaders of the parties that make up the Confederal Group of the European Unified Left/Nordic Green Left - The Left in the European Parliament, which takes place today in Brussels, is yet another opportunity to value the role and contribution that the PCP makes, also in this space, to the struggle for another Europe of cooperation among sovereign States with equal rights, of social progress and peace, respecting labour and social rights, of the environment, which fights all discrimination, inequalities and injustices and fights an increasingly neoliberal, mili

This remarkable mobilization happens because the workers, who produce wealth (they are the ones who create wealth, they are the ones who make society work, the economy work) are then confronted with this brutal injustice: economic groups increasingly concentrating more profits (even in a scandalous way), and as for the workers, they are left with crumbs. This cannot be.

Here we are celebrating the Revolution, a few days away from the 49th. anniversary of this great event of our history. We celebrate this liberating act that put an end to the long fascist night of 48 years of deprivation illiteracy, prisons, torture, death, colonialism, war. A fascist regime, aligned with fascism at the international level, a regime to which imperialism always gave a helping hand, and it was through this hand that Portugal became a founding member of NATO.