The Portuguese Communist Youth (Portuguese: Juventude Comunista Portuguesa or JCP) is the youth organization of the Portuguese Communist Party and was founded on November 10 of 1979, after the unification of the Young Communist League and the Communist Students League.
The JCP has a political relation of cooperation with the Portuguese Communist Party, however it is an independent organization. The headquarters of the JCP are located in Lisbon.
The JCP is a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, a youth non-governmental organization that congregates several left-wing youth organizations from all the continents. The WFDY holds an international event, named World Festival of Youth and Students, in which the Portuguese Communist Youth uses to participate. The current president of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, Tiago Vieira, is a member of JCP.
Composed by students and working class youth, the JCP has its main political concerns and intervention about issues like the promotion of a free and public education in all degrees, employment, access to sports and culture, peace or housing.
JCP also promotes international solidarity brigades for countries like Cuba, Palestine or Venezuela, alone or with other European communist youth organizations like KNE and SDAJ.
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