National Issues

International greetings and messages sent to the XXI Congress of the PCP

People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola Communist Party of Australia Communist Party of Armenia Workers’ Party of Austria Workers’ Party of Belgium Communist Party of Belgium Communist Party of Brazil Workers’ Party (Brazil) Communist Party of Britain African Party of Independence of Cape Verde Colombian Communist Party

Closing Speech XXI Congress of the PCP

We are coming to end of the XXI Congress of the PCP. We have come a long way in the process of preparing it and holding it.

The crisis of capitalism, the imperialist offensive, the European Union and the struggle of workers and peoples

In recent years the international situation has seriously worsened. International tension has increased, injustices and inequalities have deepened, reactionary and even fascist forces have advanced, and militarism and war remain the greatest danger facing humanity. This evolution has deep roots in the exploitative, oppressive, aggressive and predatory nature of capitalism, and arises from the incessant deepening of its insoluble contradictions that converge to deepen a structural crisis manifest on various levels – the social to economic, from the environmental to political and cultural.

The struggle for the patriotic and left-wing alternative

Comrades As was mentioned in the draft of the Political Resolution of our Congress, “the reality with which our people and the country are confronted, highlights the struggle for the patriotic and left-wing political alternative - which includes a government capable of materialise it - as a core and decisive element to guarantee the necessary path, able to respond to the demands of development, progress and national sovereignty”.

Political Resolution (Excerpts)

Chapter I

The offensive against the PCP and the Democratic Regime

Comrades, The current intense anti-communist campaign has the PCP as its the most direct and evident target. This is not surprising. It is the direct consequence of what we are and what we will not cease to be.

The Party Organization

In the period since the last Congress, the Party's organization was, once again, put to the test. We resisted and fulfilled our role in a context marked by challenges, but also by new and more diverse attacks on workers, the people and the Country, some of whom were rooted in a profound anti-communism and in an attempt to annul the PCP that for many years they have wanted to destroy or at least, make it abandon its principles, becoming equal to the other parties, harmless to the dominant classes.