Portugal, as some of you who are interested in Politics know, has hit rock bottom. After 48 years of Fascist Dictatorship and 36 years of Capitalist economical domain, the country has completely dried it's sources of income. How do Capitalists try to regain their money? austerity measures. For whom? the people. Every conquest of the Carnation Revolution is being slowly robbed from us. Education in this country is a dream, even though our constitution guarantees a free public school, open for everybody, but that is not happening. Our schools are in a terrible shape, we don't have any sort of new materials, at least any material that isn't older than us, the teachers have to work a lot of extra hours, not receiving any pay for them, and many other problems. In light of all this I decided to join the Juventude Comunista Portuguesa, JCP(Portuguese Communist Youth).
I've been a member of the JCP for almost 2 years now, and my political commitment has been growing week by week. In the past month I was arrested for painting a Mural close to my school, asking for more conditions, as we are an Artist School and we have to take classes in dumpsters (with 6 windows and a classboard), and worse than that is the fact that we don't have access to any school materials. I was released about 4 hours later, when the police realised I was doing nothing illegal.
Between the day i was arrested (13th of October) and today there has been already three demonstrations and a general strike, in which i participated as an organizer, and had to spend many hours, handing flyers, painting Murals and all sorts of things.
For this reason i wasn't able to post more Albums, more Albums that i have heard and that i want to share it with all of you. The future isn't bright and i will not stand still watching my future and the future of thousand of other youths being crumbled to the ground because of some peoples devotion to money instead of peace and love.
Red salutes to you all, and i ask you all. ACT! Don't let them take you what is yours! Don't conform yourself to this regime of money and greed!
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thanks that was really enlightening-you said a few things that i think apply here in england[as distinct from uk]
ReplyDeleteInteresting post. Please be careful with the communists-you are young-don't let them dupe you. Comm's are backstabbers and oftentimes murderers. Read some history an see where in those countries they have achived power. The are (were) all dictatorships!
ReplyDeletethat is actually incorrect. First the Portuguese Communist Party has a long history of democratic ideals. They were the ones that single-handedly fronted the fascist Dictatorship. second, you just got to look at some countries like, venezuela, El Salvador, Chile, Indonesia etc... where Communist raised themselves to power and are now in rising social status. I am extremly experienced with communism. My family is composed of Marxists. Betrail in the party in unacceptable, many people here in Portugal (something on the lines of 20,000 maybe more) chose to be tortured instead of betraying the party.
ReplyDeleteOlá! "Simpatizo" com o anarquismo e comunismo e gostava de saber que leituras recomendas para saber mais sobre esses assuntos. Bom blog, fiquei contente ao ler este post.
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depende. se for literatura teórica ou literatura a sério...
ReplyDeletesugestões de livros que te tenham marcado mais
ReplyDeleteo mais óbvio tem de ser o "A Mãe" do Máximo Gorky, este é uma leitura indespensavel. Depois há também outros dois bons livros "Um Rapaz De Florença" de Vasco Pratolini, acerca do movimento anarquista que se formou na cidade, e "E Assim Foi Temperado O Aço" do Nikolai Ostrovski.
ReplyDeleteTeóricos tens o "A Moral Anarquista" do Kropotkin, que é extremamente interessante.
thank you for your postings and what you are taking on in the world. I live in America Pride is so god damn thick and ignorance is so abundant It is so sad that people think you hate your life and your country just because you do not support a bullshit agenda of money and greed.
ReplyDeleteAnother Amerikan here and all I can say is, at least you HAVE a real popular political movement and that is something to envy. Over here we have a poisonous mass of "progressives" who think they are politically aware but remain fully committed to the established order, and a faction of "anarchist" youth who are being educated by propaganda from our own security services. My only hope is that people like YOU will take your own nations back, and set the still sleeping American people an example worth following.
ReplyDeleteGoing to court in less than a week. we are going to be accused and after we show we are in fact correct, we will accuse the police of illegal arrest and search...
ReplyDeleteRight on red hippie! Right on with the other American as well. Ive gone to these meetings with these so called progressives and they want to send emails and sign petitions and buy into this idea that in our present state, one of the two political parties is actually different from the other.
ReplyDeleteSolidarity from Bristol, England.
ReplyDeleteHum hum, i'm a witness of his speech people.
ReplyDeleteWe have the same fascist regime in France with Sarkozy who works only for people who have the money. Cops are everywhere in France.
ReplyDeleteEurope is lead by fascits regimes. There's no country lead a social governement. The money is the leader of the world. We really need a Revolution but in the whole Europe
I forgot to tell I'll vote for the communist party in April 2012 in France (Melanchon) and after for the socialist Hollande. I am a French Doctor and I am fed up with this shit.
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