As the July 29 one-year anniversary of the FBI raids on properties belonging to the African People’s Socialist Party, its solidarity committee and the Uhuru Movement passes, the US Peace Council condemns the violent and illegal state attack on the rights and freedoms of Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, known as the “Uhuru 3”, and those whom they serve.
The Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) strongly condemns the Israeli army's attacks against the Palestinian people, which are taking an even more brutal form against the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin.
Last Monday, Israel launched more than a dozen airstrikes against Jenin, an aggression that took on a cruel dimension, resulting in at least 10 deaths and many dozens of injuries, some of them in critical condition.
On the 20 th . of June, the day that marks World Refugee Day, the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC) expresses great concern about the continuous worsening of
the situation of refugees, as well as of displaced people and migrants around the world.
The recent resolution of the European Parliament (EP) which is demanding new sanctions
against the heroic people of Cuba and its leadership constitutes a provocation against the
common sense of the vast majority of people worldwide. The European Union and its
institutions apply once more their tactics of the “carrot and the stick”, as a genuine tool of the
capital and as a true imperialist structure. The E.U. is interfering in the domestic affairs of
Cuba without any moral or legal authority. The European Parliament has no right and no
The World Peace Council expresses its deep concern and worries about the ongoing
bloody war in Sudan whereas hundreds of civilians have been killed, thousands injured
and more than one million people have been internally displaced or forced to flee abroad.
As we have stated also earlier (28th April), this war is a “fierce power struggle between
factions of the ruling generals, between heavily armed militias, while it cannot hide the
interests of the foreign forces backing the clashes, including imperialist powers and
The Greek Committee for International Détente and Peace (EEDYE) denounces and condemns the new scandalous resolution of the European Parliament against Cuba, which demands that additional sanctions be applied against the heroic Cuban people.
In Portugal, between June 15 and 17, many responded to the call and carried out important
and significant actions in defence of peace.
The Appeal “Stop the war! Give peace a chance!" endorsed by more than 40 Portuguese
organisations and launched in May by the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation,
resulted in five actions: in Porto, Coimbra, Faro, Funchal and Lisbon.
Altogether, several thousand participants, in very different ways, reaffirmed the importance
and urgency of defending peace.
Viola Amherd of the Federal Council has decided that Switzerland should join NATO's Sky Shield project. The Swiss Peace Movement strongly criticizes this warmongering decision, which further undermines Switzerland's neutrality, and demands Amherd's resignation.
It is the duty of the people to demand from political leaders their right to live. When the lives of their species, their people and their loved ones are at such risk, no one should afford to be indifferent, nor should they waste a minute demanding respect for that right; tomorrow could be too late.
Fidel Castro Ruz, “Message against nuclear war”
October 15, 2010
