Our Chairperson Erkan Baş attended the 1st International Antifascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples, organized by CADTM International, taking place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, between March 26-29. He was accompanied by our Vice Chairperson and Central Executive Committee Member Doğan Ergün, and our TİP Overseas Organizations Committee Member Firuze Taner.

Erkan Baş delivered a speech at the conference, which aims to create a common line of struggle against the rising far right, neoliberalism, and imperialism worldwide.

Other speakers on the panel included Oscar Andrade, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Uruguay and Senator; Ana Miranda, Member of the European Parliament for BNG Spain; João Oliveira, Member of the European Parliament for the Portuguese Communist Party; Abdul Osmanu, State Representative in Connecticut; Glauber Braga, Brazilian Member of Parliament; and Vilma Ripoll, former Member of Parliament from Argentina.

Our chairperson and delegation participated in the Anti-Fascist March, which took place in Porto Alegre on the evening of the opening day of the 1st International Anti-Fascist Conference. The march was attended by tens of thousands of people.  The TİP members carried a banner that read "Down with Fascism! Down with Imperialism!"

You can access the text and video recording of our Chairperson's speech at the conference below.

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