1. The 2024 immigration and asylum report, in Portugal, published by AIMA (1), identifies as official immigration numbers in Portugal about one and a half million (1.544 million) immigrants with residence authorization;

2. Brazil is the largest immigrant community in Portugal with 484,596 inhabitants (31.4% of all immigration present in the country);

3. Immigrants in Portugal contribute significantly to the Portuguese Social Security (SS), that is, they contribute significantly to the balance of Portuguese public finances that pay the retirements/“pensions” of millions of Portuguese people. The contributions amount to around 1.8 billion euros and the group of immigrant workers only benefits from about 300 million;

4. It is practically consensual that without immigrants, the Portuguese economy would, at the very least, have serious difficulties functioning in several economic areas such as: agriculture, hospitality, civil construction, etc.;

5. In Portugal there is a very large drop in birth rate and a very significant aging of the population. On the other hand, there are thousands of Portuguese (around 30,000 per year) who also emigrate to other countries, and among them, mainly young people;

6. The framework referred to above was and is the breeding ground for the hatred of far-right movements and new neo-fascist parties (Bolsonaro in Brazil and André Ventura and his party “Chega”, in Portugal) in face of migratory movements in recent years. These neo-fascist parties have as a common apex the promotion of hatred and persecution of immigrants, who, contradictorily, no European country (see the case of Meloni’s Italy) seems willing to forgo as labor force;

7. We revolutionaries are against any and all limitation on the circulation of people anywhere in the world.

8. However, the prevailing capitalism is increasingly savage and this is another reason why the Portuguese case needs so much immigration. Immigrants are always super exploited and with serious economic and housing difficulties;

9. This motion aims to alert Brazilian workers and citizens who voted in Brazil for the election of the Portuguese Bolsonaro (André Ventura): this is the one who most persecutes Brazilian immigrants in Portugal. In turn, the two sections of the ISL that subscribe to this motion likewise alert Portuguese workers that their enemy is not Brazilian immigration or any other, but the decrepit Portuguese capitalism that makes all workers, whether Portuguese, Brazilian, Indian, Nepalese or from other countries, concrete victims of the unrestrained exploitation that reigns over the entire world of labor;

THE TWO SECTIONS OF THE ISL, ON DECEMBER 10, IN THEIR III WORLD CONGRESS, RESOLVE:

1. To express our internationalist solidarity with all workers who decide, even with the gigantic difficulties of legalizing themselves, to move to other countries (including Portugal) in order to seek better means of economic survival;

2. In the case of the two countries, Brazil and Portugal, the solidarity is broader, as despite the largest Brazilian immigrant community having chosen Portugal as a destination for work and to live, everyone knows that Brazil, for centuries, was likewise the destination of thousands and thousands of Portuguese people seeking to improve their living conditions;

3. To Brazilian immigrants who work and reside in Portugal, we invite you to come to politically know the Portuguese section of the ISL.

[1] Agency for Integration Migrations and Asylum (AIMA).

Adopted by the III World Congress of the ISL