At the beginning of his speech at the final rally of the communist “rent”, Jeronimo de Souza immediately turned to the topic of the war in Ukraine.

“The escalation of the war in Ukraine and the spiral of sanctions imposed by the United States of America, the European Union and NATO, with the complicity of the Portuguese government, are inseparable from rampant speculation and rising prices for energy, food and other goods. … essential goods, from attacking the living conditions of peoples, drawing the world into an even more serious economic and social situation,” the communist leader said to the participants of the Festa do Avante!.

From the point of view of the Secretary General of the PKP, “reality shows who is doing everything so that the war does not end,” as well as “who is doing everything to accumulate colossal profits when it continues,” referring to the military industry and transnational corporations. in the energy sector.

Six months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Jeronimo de Souza again insisted on leaving the party’s position before moving on to the next topic: “The PKP has the right to be on the side from the beginning of the world. and against war, the PKP has the right to defend a political solution to the conflict.”

The other side, according to him, contributes to “incitement of hatred” and “aggravation of xenophobia.”

Jeronimo de Souza also criticized the “strategy of confrontation with imperialism”, the consequences of which, in his opinion, are people who pay.

In all parts of the hall, “banners” with calls for peace are visible, which the PKP insisted on in this issue in order to distance itself from criticism of the allies in favor of war and with the Kremlin.

“A peace that is possible only with justice and that must be won along with the fight against exploitation and oppression,” he added.

The PCP accuses the government of “fictitious measures” and calls on the executive branch to intervene openly

The PKP General Secretary today accused the government of “sham” measures and of using inflation, high or low, as an excuse for not increasing revenues, arguing that the executive should act and not “hide”.

The communist leader believed that “the inflationary spiral, which has been going on for a year now and moving without brakes, is alarming and serious.”

“But no less serious is the policy of impromptu measures. A policy that eludes the fundamentals, that eludes the substitution of purchasing power for wages and pensions and the necessary and necessary price controls,” he criticized.

According to the Secretary General of the PKP, this policy “combines the PS government and a set of retrograde and reactionary forces of the SDP, KDS, the Liberal Initiative and Cheg with their deceitful and hypocritical measures to promote the concealment of origin and mechanisms of extortion and overexploitation.”

“The inflationary spiral that they sold to the public opinion as a transient phenomenon, while refusing to raise wages so as not to stimulate inflation. We are well aware of the booklet of those who rely on the exploitation of labor: when there is no inflation, they refuse to raise wages for this reason, when there is inflation, they do not raise wages so as not to contribute to the “inflationary spiral”. he criticized.

In this context, the communist leader urged the government to act and not “hide”.

“This exploitative and speculative rage that goes unpunished must be stopped. The government can and should intervene, and not hide, as PSD, CDS, IL, Chega and CDS defend, behind false rules to serve the interests of big business and the new privatizing liberal order.”