National Issues

Not one right less. Valuing work and workers

PCP launched yesterday a National Initiative of contact with workers, part of the campaign «Valuing work and workers. No to exploration!», with dozens of initiatives in all regions of the continent and autonomous regions, which will continue today and over the next few weeks. We are where we have always been. With the workers and the people, listening to their problems, denouncing the abuses of their rights, making proposals to respond to their demands and desires.

Network of Social Care Facilities and Services from childhood to old age. Situation and prospects

1. The epidemic outbreak brought to the fore the situation and prospects of the social responses that make up the Network of Social Care Facilities and Services. The suspension of the activity of some of these social responses - nurseries, pre-school, leisure activities, centres for occupational activities, day care and social centres, among others – was a measure to prevent the epidemic outbreak.

Companies with millions of profits, dismiss hundreds of workers in Sines. The struggle is more than just

We are here in an act of solidarity with hundreds of workers who, due to precarious ties, are threatened with such a large dismissal by a subcontractor. It is clear that Petrogal company, which should also be held responsible for this and which allows these workers with precarious ties, who are already more vulnerable, to face the threat of dismissal with all the social and labour consequences that lead to an outcome of this magnitude.

PCP carries out national contact action «Valuing work and workers. No to exploitation»

Following the decision of the last meeting of its Central Committee, the PCP will promote, in the coming weeks, a day of contact and information with workers under the motto «Not a single right less», included in the campaign «Valuing work and workers . No to exploitation”.

Hygiene, Safety and Health in work: a struggle always, a struggle today

The situation resulting from the COVID-19 epidemic raises, with greater vehemence, the need for safety and health at work and the services in this field.

Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of May 16, 2020

The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on May 16, 2020, discussed and analysed the fundamental features, developments and dangers of the current situation in the context of the epidemic outbreak and set down guidelines for the intervention and strengthening of the Party and the struggle for the patriotic and left-wing alternative.

Strengthen the National Health Service, guarantee the provision of care to all in the public service

When a major operation is underway led by the economic groups in the disease business, their political representatives and propagandists, including reactionary sectors that have always wanted the destruction of the National Health Service, it is a national imperative, in the name of the health of the Portuguese, to demand the strengthening of the NHS in order to fully guarantee the right to healthcare.

“Strengthen the NHS. Guarantee access to healthcare”

More than 40 years after the adoption of the law that created the National Health Service on September 15, 1979, the NHS today faces a gigantic operation led by private groups in the disease business, their political representatives and the usual propagandists that have done everything, over the years, to have these groups replace the public service in providing healthcare and thus see thousands of millions euros entering the coffers of their companies, public money that should be used to strengthen the NHS.

Public transport. Strategic sector to ensure the right to mobility and territorial cohesion

A year has passed, last April 1st, since the cuts in the price of public transport passes, right in the phase when most of the population was in lockdown due to the measures to prevent and combat the epidemic. It was, as the PCP stressed at the time, a step of enormous significance for an important part of the population. Important for those who live and work in large metropolitan areas, due to the vast scope of the measure and of the significant reduction in mobility costs.

Fight the virus and defend the rights of the retirees, pensioners and elderly

The last few months have been marked by an exceptional situation, as a result of the outbreak of COVID -19 and the sanitary measures to prevent and fight it, in which the National Health Service and its professionals have played an irreplaceable role. We have entered a new period of resuming life in the country, a path towards the normalisation of economic activity and the life of the Portuguese aware of the need to comply with the basic rules of health protection, individual and collective.