Portuguese Communist Youth

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Portuguese Communist Youth Juventude Comunista Portuguesa
Founded	1979; 45 years ago (1979)
Headquarters	Lisbon, Portugal
Ideology	Marxism–Leninism Communism Socialism Proletarian internationalism Anti-fascism Anti-imperialism Anti-racism Anti-xenophobia Anti-capitalism
Mother party	Portuguese Communist Party
International affiliation	World Federation of Democratic Youth

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The Portuguese Communist Youth (Portuguese: Juventude Comunista Portuguesa or JCP) is the youth organization of the Portuguese Communist Party, and was founded on 10 November 1979, after the unification of the Young Communist League and the Communist Students League.

The JCP has a political relationship 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 (WFDY), a non-governmental youth organization that congregates several left-wing youth organizations from all continents. The WFDY holds an international event, named the World Festival of Youth and Students, in which the Portuguese Communist Youth participates. JCP has held the presidency of the World Federation of Democratic Youth in the past and maintains an active role in the Federation.

Composed of students and working-class youth, the JCP's main political concerns and interventions are on the subject of the promotion of a free and public education in all degrees, employment, access to sports and culture, peace, and housing.

JCP also promotes international brigades for countries like Cuba, Palestine, and Venezuela, both alone and with other European communist youth organizations like KNE and SDAJ.