National Issues
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.
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.
XIII Congress of the JCP - Portuguese Communist Youth “In our hands the new world - Organise. Unite. Fight”
16 November 2025
Dear comrades, guests, representatives of national youth structures and organisations, international delegations here present from various parts of the world, to all of you, on behalf of the Portuguese Communist Party, I extend a warm greeting.
I extend a special greeting to all comrades of the Portuguese Communist Youth, to all those who, in various services, ensure the smooth running of the Congress, to the delegates, to the guests, to those who are here, to those who could not come, to the newly elected National Leadership, and to each of the collectives.
National March of CGTP-IN against the Labour Package
11 November 2025
The PCP's opposition to this government bill is already well known, but how did you view the Prime Minister's statement about the possibility of a general strike, calling on trade unions to act responsibly and saying that workers' interests should not be captured by party interests?
Commemorative session marking the 112th. anniversary of Álvaro Cunhal's birth “The April Revolution. Profound transformations and resistance against the counter-revolutionary process”
10 November 2025
A warm welcome to everyone attending this session, where we mark the 112th. anniversary of the birth of comrade Álvaro Cunhal.
This unique figure in contemporary Portugal, a fighter for freedom and democracy and a beacon in the struggle for social and human emancipation in our Country and around the world.
Álvaro Cunhal dedicated his entire life, as leader of the PCP and anti-fascist fighter, to the cause of the workers, his people and his Country.
PCP presents last package of proposals for amendments to the State Budget for 2026
7 November 2025
On this last day for submitting proposals for amendments to the State Budget for 2026, there is a preliminary issue that needs to be addressed, lest it be forgotten once again. The State Budget for 2026 cannot ignore the tragedy of the forest fires that ravaged the country this summer. The diagnosis has been made, and what needs to be done to prevent and combat fires has been clearly identified. This requires investment in forests that cannot continue to be postponed as it has been until now.