Congratulations to the PCPE and CJC

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Red Youth was very pleased to hear today the good news that the comrades Juanjo Serrano, Albert Camarasa and Xavier Aure have been acquitted of all charges brought against them by the state. The Spanish communists can be well pleased with the tremendous and determined fight that was put up by the PCPE and CJC and has finally brought victory! The following is the statement of the PCPE:

STATEMENT FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMUNITEE OF THE PCPE
ACQUITTAL OF OUR MILITANTS IN FACE OF THE POLICE SET-UP

On April 19th the PCPE received the sentence of the trial against our three comrades Juanjo Serrano, Albert Camarasa and Xavier Auré, which declared the full acquittal of all charges against them.

In face of this trial, the Executive Committee of the PCPE makes the following STATEMENT:

1.Almost five years after the process began, years in which our militants have been threatened with a prison sentence of three years and ten months, the denounce of the PCPE about the police set-up has been proved. The sentence acknowledges, without any space for doubts, that the police did not have any objective basis in which founding their accusations against our members. The Prosecutor has also shared this incriminating position.

2. This action of the Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalonian police) is really founded on the existence of the police files that are being made in our country in order to keep surveillance on the communist militants. This is proved by the fact that the police knew about the political membership of our militants without having identified them. We denounce the practice, conducted by the Ministry of Interior, of having political files of the members of the PCPE, with the aim of criminalizing the normal action of our Party.

3.The effective work of the legal team of the PCPE, together with the important actions of solidarity held worldwide by many different organizations and individuals – and the international communist movement – has prevented the sentence against our militants in a case based on false accusations. The PCPE would like to openly express the gratitude to all these people and organizations.

4.The EC of the PCPE also highlights the strength of our three militants, who have assumed the threat of prison with revolutionary responsibility.

5.Nowadays, the initiatives adopted by the new government of the oligarchy in order to change some parts of the Criminal Code, aim at repressing the struggle of the working class and are an expression of the bankruptcy of the present system of domination. With the sharpening of the structural crisis of the capitalist system, the dominant classes are unable to keep their dominance through mechanisms of social consensus. This situation highlights the situation of exhaustion of Spanish capitalism, which has only one way to keep its position: the direct exercise of the dictatorship of capital and the violent repression of the peoples’ struggles.

6.The PCPE will not give up, no matter the threat, the struggle for the socialist revolution and communism, making the mass struggle the key tool in the necessary process of accumulation of forces. The dominant classes of this country will not be able to stop this process, no matter how much violence they exert against the people. The EC of the PCPE calls for struggle for the political goals of the working class emancipation, for socialism and communism anywhere and anyhow.

STRUGGLE IS UNTIL VICTORY!
LONG LIVE PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM
FOR SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM

PAIGC on Libya – All Africa will suffer from NATO's colonial and genocidal war!

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Legendary Marxist-Leninist Liberation fighter, pan-Africanist and anti-imperialist Amilcar Cabral had the following to say on the nature of our fight against imperialism:

“I should just like to make one last point about solidarity between the international working class movement and our national liberation struggle. There are two alternatives: either we admit that there really is a struggle against imperialism which interests everybody, or we deny it. If, as would seem from all the evidence, imperialism exists and is trying simultaneously to dominate the working class in all the advanced countries and smother the national liberation movements in all the underdeveloped countries, then there is only one enemy against whom we are fighting. If we are fighting together, then I think the main aspect of our solidarity is extremely simple: it is to fight.”

Cabral died just 9 months before the party he founded – the PAIGC – liberated his homeland, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde, from 500 years of Portugese Colonialism, bringing the downfall of the Potugese fascist junta in its wake.

He and his comrades from the PAIGC also played a vital part in the liberation of other (Particularly, but not exclusively, Portugese speaking) African nations. He was a founding member of MPLA (Angola) and the Portugese Communist Party, inter alia.

Comrade Teodora Ignacia Gomez, Womens’ activist, liberation fighter and comrade in arms of Cabral, features in this video interview, which is an exert from a longer interview she granted to comrades of the CPGB-ML on her recent visit to London.

She outlines the supportive relationship that Colonel Gaddafi’s Libya had fostered with Guinea Bissau, as so many other African Nations. Libya had tried to bring about sustainable infrastructural and agricultural development in Guinea Bissau, she tells us, both through the African Bank and independently granted aid.

As a result of NATOs genocidal war on Libya, and the illegal ousting of her legitimate government – and now Gaddafi’s cowardly and brutal assassination, which foul deed took place 24 hrs after this interview – the people of Guinea Bissau and all Africa will suffer, she says.