The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) salutes the 50th. anniversary of the 25th. of April 1974, which was, in itself, an achievement of peace, by putting an end to the colonial war, by recognising the independence of the peoples hitherto subjected to colonialism, by enshrining the defence of peace, disarmament and cooperation with all peoples of the world as values of the new democratic Portugal.

50 years ago, the Palestinian National Council established April 17 as the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners, in which solidarity is expressed with Palestinian political prisoners detained in Israeli prisons.

In 2024, the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) marks this day by denouncing and strongly condemning the ongoing genocide carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people, in which, we are daily faced with an increase in the number of deaths and injured, which now exceeds 109 thousand, mostly women and children.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was created on April 4, 1949, precisely 75 years ago, and since then it has constituted the greatest threat to Peace in the world.

The creation of NATO countered the creation of a collective security system provided for in the United Nations Charter, imposing on the world a political-military bloc and the logic of confrontation, arms race and war.

On April 2, 1976, as a result of the struggle of the Portuguese people and the April Revolution, begun on April 25, 1974, which put an end to fascism and colonialism, the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (CPR) was approved and promulgated, enshrining broad democratic rights.

The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) condemns the systematic policy and repeated manoeuvres by the United States of America (US) to try to destroy the system and way of life of Cuban society – freely and sovereignly determined by the Cuban people –, and once again transform the dignified and sovereign Republic of Cuba into a vassal country of the USA.

The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) marks Palestinian Land Day, March 30, remembering the general strike and the huge demonstrations of 1976 against the illegal confiscation of Palestinian lands by Israel, when Israeli troops murdered six young Palestinians in Galilee.

This date became a milestone in the patriotic unity of the Palestinian people in the struggle against Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and for the right to a free and independent Palestine.

Ilda Figueiredo and Julie Neves, from the CPPC's National Board, participated in the International Conference "From Aggression to New Just Order", between March 21 and 24, in Belgrade, which evoked the 25th. anniversary of NATO's aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (then integrated by Serbia and Montenegro).

This March 8, the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation salutes all women and expresses
solidarity with the struggle for their rights, particularly calling for participation in the national
demonstration that the Women's Democratic Movement will hold on March 23, in Lisbon, with the motto
“For the Equality to Which We Have the Right”.
The already long struggle for women's rights has always been linked to the struggle for peace, and its
contribution has been fundamental to swell the river of hope in the materialisation of rights for equality in

The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) strongly condemns the massacre by the Israeli occupation forces that resulted in more than 100 dead and 700 injured Palestinians when trying to access food aid in the city of Gaza.

This cruel crime was committed in a situation in which Israel has been imposing, for five months now, an inhumane blockade on the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, making it impossible to access water, food, medicines, electricity and fuel, among other essential goods.

The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) salutes the Sahrawi people, as well as the Polisario Front, their legitimate representative, on the occasion of the 48th. anniversary of the proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), which took place on February 27, 1976, reaffirming support for the Sahrawi people's struggle to fulfil their right to self-determination.