ALL FOR THE GENERAL STRIKE - December 11 - WHAT IS AT STAKE

11 December 2025

AGAINST THE LABOUR PACKAGE What is at stake Salaries crushed for colossal profits Colossal profits and workers in difficulty, but the Government wants to further reduce low wages and devalue professions and careers: use unemployment and unemployment benefits to lower wages;

ALL FOR THE GENERAL STRIKE - 11 Reasons to go on strike

11 December 2025

AGAINST THE LABOUR PACKAGE 11 Reasons to go on strike

Raise National Minimum Wage to €1050 already in January!

10 December 2025

When everybody swears eternal love for wage increases, the PCP once again provides the opportunity for the Assembly of the Republic to decide to increase the national minimum wage to €1050 as early as January, thereby stimulating a general increase in wages and the valorisation of the careers and professions of all workers. Those who say ‘wages yes, but not now’ will come up with the old refrain: companies can't cope, we need to create wealth and then distribute it, productivity has to increase, and so on...

Workers are not numbers and they are not parts; they are the ones who produce wealth and should be valued

5 December 2025

Mr. Prime Minister, a preliminary note: MP Mr. Hugo Soares kindly brought up the issues surrounding the labour package but managed to spend eight minutes talking about the labour package without mentioning a single measure contained in it. It should also be noted that CHEGA and Iniciativa Liberal tried to sidestep this issue, but Mr. Prime Minister, I would like to ask three specific questions.

Government diverts public resources to real estate speculation, driving up prices and increasing housing precariousness

4 December 2025

1. The changes in the fiscal field that the PSD/CDS Government intends to promote with the request for legislative authorisation submitted yesterday to the Assembly of the Republic constitute an unacceptable choice in favour of real estate speculation and fiscal injustice. The diversion of public resources to real estate funds, banks and large real estate owners is at the heart of this tax package, which goes even further than what was announced in September. 2. Among other serious aspects, the following stand out:

We still have time to stop the economic crime that is the privatisation of TAP

4 December 2025

Let’s not repeat the same mistake! We still have time to stop the economic crime that is the privatisation of TAP. A criminal investigation is underway into evidence of crimes committed during the process of the privatisation of TAP in 2015, but also during the period of private management, which the PCP denounced at the time because TAP was acquired by a private group with TAP's own money, and also denounced the excesses of private management.

The proposals in the Labour Package reek of stale ideas against workers' rights

3 December 2025

The ongoing mobilisation for the General Strike, with the support of a wide range of sectors, is already a powerful demonstration of rejection of the Labour Package that the Government and the rest of the right-wing, serving the interests of employers, intend to impose, in a serious setback for rights and an unacceptable worsening of the exploitation of workers. The more the Minister of Labour attacks the workers, the clearer the intentions of the Government and employers become, the more unity grows, and the conviction increases that this struggle is just.

The PCP stands in solidarity with the Communist Party of Poland

2 December 2025

Following the new attempt to ban the Communist Party of Poland, through a motion presented by the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, to the Constitutional Court, the PCP sent a letter to the Embassy of Poland in Portugal expressing its profound indignation and repudiation of this unacceptable initiative. The adoption of this initiative will represent a serious attack on democratic rights and freedoms in Poland, based on an unacceptable and dangerous operation of historical revisionism, which aims to criminalise the communist ideal and ban the actions of Polish communists.

On the situation in Guinea-Bissau

28 November 2025

The PCP strongly condemns the actions carried out by a self-proclaimed “military high command” that have undermined the constitutional order of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and the functioning of its institutions, preventing the announcement of the results of the legislative and presidential elections scheduled for 27 November, invading the campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Fernando Dias da Costa and seizing Domingos Simões Pereira, President of the People’s National Assembly of Guinea-Bissau and leader of the PAIGC, as well as other political leaders

Concert «Camões: cultural expression of a changing world»

Camões: The poet of the people in a changing world

22 November 2025

I would like to thank everyone for attending this concert, which is part of the PCP's programme of celebrations of the 500th. Anniversary of the birth of Luís de Camões. Allow me to extend a special greeting to the artists, cultural workers and everyone who worked hard to make this initiative a reality.