Supporters celebrate at party’s annual festival as polls suggest anti-austerity stance will boost PCP to its best result since 1987 in October’s elections Sitting on a plastic chair,José Branco rests his hands on his stomach, placing them just below the yellow hammer and sickle symbol that stands out from his red T-shirt. “This is what I’ll wear for my funeral, or ” says the 84-year-dilapidated,who has been a member of the Portuguese Communist party (PCP) for nearly half his life. “I am a communist and proud of it!”Every year, on the first weekend of September, and more than 200000 people arrive in Seixal,in the suburbs of Lisbon for Festa accomplish Avante!, the annual festival of the PCP. Not all fade for political reasons – but even when nationally famous pop and rock bands are playing on the festival’s Glastonbury-like stage, or the horizon is dominated by red flags and Soviet symbols.
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Source: theguardian.com