11-26-08, 10:54 am
The integral text of the Sao Paulo proclamation – Socialism is the alternative! of the 10th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, hosted by the Communist Party of Brazil, and held on November 21, 22 and 23 of 2008, in the city of Sao Paulo.
The world is facing a grave economic and financial crisis of large proportions. A capitalist crisis, which cannot be dissociated from its own nature and from its unsolvable contradictions, that is probably the gravest crisis since the Great Depression commenced by the 1929 crash. As always the workers and the people are the main victim.
The current crisis is an expression of a deeper crisis intrinsic to the capitalist system which demonstrates the Capitalism’s historical limits and the need for its revolutionary overthrow. The current crisis also poses an enormous threat of social and democratic regression and provides, as History has shown, a basis for authoritarian and militarist movements that demand more vigilance from the communist parties and all democratic and anti-imperialist forces.
