“The urgency of the struggle for peace today” was the theme of the debate held on Wednesday, September 24, at Casa do Alentejo in Lisbon. Launching the topic were CPPC leader Isabel Camarinha, Casa do Alentejo president Manuel Verdugo, and Major General Agostinho Costa.
September 21st marks the International Peace Day, designated by the United Nations to affirm and promote peace and prevent tensions and causes of conflict in the world. In our time, celebrating this day and reflecting on its meaning is of the utmost importance, given the extremely serious situation in the world, with the proliferation of conflicts, the insane arms race, and the dangerous militaristic rhetoric prevailing, particularly in NATO and the European Union.
The WPC is vehemently condemning the repeated and ongoing immoral maneuvers of the US-administration on various levels in order to aggravate the economic blockade and sanctions against the sovereign will of the Cuban people who defend their right to determine their future and destiny without foreign and imperialist interference. The plans and actions of the USA are openly aiming at the asphyxiation of the brave Cuban people in order to achieve popular discontent against the Cuban Revolution.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) strongly condemns Israel's attack on the capital of Qatar, Doha. This is yet another violation of international law committed by the State of Israel, bombing yet another sovereign country—after Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Yemen—which deserves the deepest condemnation.
Déclaration du CMP concernant l’« Accord de Paix » étasunien pour la Palestine
The World Peace Council expresses its deep concern and opposition to the recent developments around the “US Peace Deal” over Palestine supervised and imposed by the US administration which comes in clear continuation of the “US plan of the century”. This “new” plan is converting the Palestinian Gaza Strip into a de facto US protectorate leaving the Israeli occupation over Palestine untouched, especially the more than 50% of the territory of the Gaza Strip.
The U.S. Peace Council condemns the U.S. government’s escalating wars abroad and its deepening war against working-class, Black, Brown, Indigenous, immigrant, and other oppressed and vulnerable communities here at home. The same imperialist system that wages aggression against Venezuela and Iran intensifies repression in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and communities across the United States. These are not separate wars — they are fronts of a global imperialist system in decline, struggling to maintain its exploitative, unilateral hegemony in the face of a rising multipolar world.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he would destroy Gaza City and expel its population, imposing a new and unacceptable forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, a step that is part of Israel's policy of genocide and colonization against the Palestinian people.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) strongly condemns this new escalation of Israel's aggression against the Palestinian people and calls for solidarity from the peace and solidarity movement and the Portuguese people with Palestine.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) vehemently condemns and demands an end to the US administration's obstruction of the participation of representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority in the UN General Assembly session, taking place this month in New York.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) joins the concern and condemnation, already widely expressed by organizations and individuals around the world, regarding the deployment of United States naval forces near the Venezuelan coast in the Caribbean.
