Jerónimo de Sousa says that the current political solution has a "limited"

The secretary general of the Portuguese Communists, Jerónimo de Sousa, described the nature of the current political solution as "limited" and on Saturday called on Porto to further support the options of the PCP.

During the session held at the Municipal Library of Porto, Jerónimo de Sousa made several compliments to the policy and thoughts of the honored and assured that the PCP will continue to "fight" for "a lifetime better, asserting the construction of an alternative path that has socialism on the horizon "

For Jerónimo de Sousa, the struggle for a better life is so much" more necessary "how much the political character of the solution Current politics and the need to give ever more strength to a real alternative policy, the patriotic and left-wing politics that the PCP proposes to the Portuguese people, are evident in all the evolution of national political life.

To evoke the "anti-fascist resistance", the "unsinkable intellectual", the "undisputed revolutionary", the "democracy worker" and the "humanist", The communist leader recalled that the life and the policies defended by Armando Castro "give the example" and "lead a course" in Portugal

"In our time, when regressions seem to prevail in the commodification of life the intensification of exploitation, the devaluation of work, the concentration of wealth and the expansion of poverty (…), the memory of Armando Castro and what emanates from his thoughts … reinforces the belief that it is worth it and Armando Castro was an economist, lawyer and researcher, "forbidden to teach until the end of the 19th century." [19659006] The portrait of "a figure of reference"

Born in Porto in 1918, Armando Castro was an economist, 25 de Abril ", recalls his biography published on the antifascist page of the Resistance, on Facebook.

A graduate in Legal Sciences from the University of Coimbra (1941) and in Political Science-Economics (1942) from the University of Porto, he was a fellow Armando Castro is also known for "hundreds of Works in the fields of history, theoretical and applied economics and theory of knowledge, which make up his work, recognized in 1965 by the former Portuguese Society [19659002Intheplenarycourtsofthedictatorshipthelawyerwhowasacommunistmilitantsince1941defendednumerousdefendantsaccusedofso-called"politicalcrimes"suchasRuyLuísGomesÓscarLopesandAgostinhoNetoandwaspartoftheNationalCommissionofRelieftoPoliticalPrisonersAmongotherdistinctionshereceivedthegoldmedalofthecityofPorto

. At his death in 1999, unanimously, the Assembly of the Republic praised the life and work of the teacher, considering that he lost reference, a thinker and a tireless investigator, "advocating the course of" the active opponent of the dictatorship. "

Struggling for an" advanced democracy ", Jerónimo says

After seeing the exhibition on the life and work of Armando Castro, which was inaugurated this Saturday at the Almeida Garrett library in Porto, and will remain open until August 14, Jerónimo de Sousa defended an "advanced democracy" in the four areas – political, economic, social and cultural – and assumed that the PCP would reaffirm a policy that would ensure a Portugal "with a future, social justice and progress."

"A policy that is becoming ever more important and integral to the struggle to achieve an advanced democracy that projects values ​​and legacies of April as objective realities and needs in the country's future, "he said in the six-page speech he read for more than 20 minutes.