The PCP firmly condemns the attacks that took place today in Brussels and expresses its dismay and condolences to the families of the victims, as well as its solidarity with the Belgian people.

The PCP stresses that terrorism - whatever its causes, forms and stated objectives - always serves the strategies and the most reactionary and sinister interests and is inseparable from the policies of exploitation and oppression and the logic of militarism and war.

The PCP draws attention to the dangers of instrumentalization of the genuine feelings of indignation to impose measures of anti-democratic nature and the development of inhumane policies regarding the drama of the refugees furthering harms to the rights, freedoms and guarantees, as well as the promotion of racist and xenophobic feelings that have fuelled the growth of extreme right-wing forces of fascistic nature in Europe.

The PCP also reiterates that the answer to crimes like those now perpetrated in the Belgian capital does not call for even more militarist and interventionist forms by the European Union - like the wars against sovereign states in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia prove - feed the dangerous growth of reactionary and xenophobic forces and groups and their actions of terror.

The necessary response to terrorism and to the logic of conflict that feeds it necessarily involves tackling its root causes - political, economic and social - and the defence and affirmation of the values of freedom, democracy, sovereignty and independence of states and a policy of international relations, of détente, dialogue and peace.