Draft:Ruptura (Political Collective)

Ruptura Colective (Portuguese: Coletivo Ruptura), informally Ruptura, is a communist organization in Portugal. It has been active since September 2023 in Porto and Lisbon. Its stated goal is "the recovery of the Communist Program and the self-emancipation of the proletariat".

History
It was formed in September of 2023 in Porto but has expanded to Lisbon,  as well as other cities in Portugal. It has taken part in a number of movements, such as the housing rights movement, the Palestinian solidarity movement, the queer movement, while at the same time organizing public communist reading clubs in major cities,  and creating an online space for open debate in the Portuguese communist milieu. It has attracted a number of communists discontent with the Portuguese Communist Party and its youth wing.

Positions


Ruptura presents itself a communist collective that formed as a rejection of the status of communist movement in Portugal and its organizational and political bankruptcy.

Its points of unity are:


 * 1) Ruthless critique of all that exists in order to recover the Communist Program;
 * 2) Defense of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat;
 * 3) Critical position regarding every past, present and future revolutionary projects;
 * 4) Defense of the international character of the communist revolution;
 * 5) Defense of communism as the emancipation of the human species through the self-abolition of the proletariat destroying private property, the family and the state;
 * 6) Affirming the centrality of the sexual and gender abolition to the communist program;
 * 7) Revolutionary defeatism in the face of inter-imperialist conflicts inherent to this stage - the superior stage of capitalism;
 * 8) Recognition of the imperialist character of Portuguese capitalism;
 * 9) Recognition of the relation between capitalism and the climate crisis, and the necessity of the revolutionary suppression of the first to solve the second;
 * 10) Defense of the political independence of the proletariat against the interests of labor aristocracy, the petty bourgeoisie and remaining middle classes;
 * 11) Right to critique and debate, within the established principles, as well as to public polemic;

It takes inspiration from communists such Marx, Engels and Lenin, as well as other theorists such as Francisco Martins Rodrigues.