National Issues
In defense of the people and the Country! For a Europe of workers and peoples!
29 May 2019
The PCP Members of the European Parliament will exert their mandates honoring their commitments assumed before the Portuguese people, with a firm and permanent intervention in the intransigent defense of the rights and interests of workers, the people and the Country: to ensure progress and fight setbacks; to break with the path of inequality, dependence and national abdication that has been imposed upon the Portuguese people and Portugal; to fight the submission to the Euro and the impositions and conditions of the European Union and recover the necessary instruments towards the resolution of
Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of May 28, 2019
28 May 2019
The Central Committee of the PCP, having met on May 28, 2019, evaluated the work carried and the results of the European Parliament elections held on May 26, analysed the national situation and the development of the struggle, and pointed out lines of work for the immediate future, particularly for the October 6 Legislative Elections and the struggle for the alternative.
I - No going backwards. It is necessary to move forward
The provisional results of the elections for the European Parliament [in Portugal] confirm the election of two MEPs from the CDU
27 May 2019
CDU maintains an important representation in the European Parliament, electing two MEPs who are a solid, coherent and trustworthy guarantee for the defense of the interests of the workers and the country. These MEPs will be engaged in all the struggles for social justice, progress, sovereignty, cooperation and peace.
On the results for the elections to the European Parliament
27 May 2019
1. The CDU’s result is not only particularly negative for the defense of the interests of the people and the country in the European parliament, as it does not correspond either to the environment of support that was expressed during the campaign, nor to the systematic recognition of the CDU’s work in the European Parliament and the decisive contribution that was made by the PCP [Portuguese Communist Party] and the PEV [Ecologist Party - the Greens] towards the advances in living standards that were achieved during the past three and a half years.
On the about-face of the PSD and the CDS in the consecration of the time of service
5 May 2019
The statements by Rui Rio and Assunção Cristas confirm that the PSD and the CDS were driven not by the aim to respond to the right of counting the time of service of the workers of the special careers of the Public Administration but by mere criteria of calculism.
On the blackmail and threat of resignation by the government
3 May 2019
As the PCP has said and reaffirmed, the path is to go forward and not move backwards.
It's necessary the general increase in wages
1 May 2019
Our participation and reason for being here, naturally in solidarity with the worker’s struggle, but in particular with this important demand of CGTP-IN for a general increase in wages, namely the national minimum wage to 850€.
Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of April 8, 2019
8 April 2019
The Central Committee of the PCP, having met on April 8, analysed the evolution of the national political, economic and social situation and aspects of the international situation, underlined the development of the mass struggle, stressed the importance of the electoral battles and defined the main lines of intervention, political initiative and strengthening of the Party.
I - International situation
«On the Centennial of the Communist International - Long Live Internationalist Solidarity!»
19 March 2019
In the year of the Centennial of its foundation, it is worth remembering that during its existence between 1919 and 1943 the Communist International played an inspiring and leading role in the international communist movement and that, despite the difficulties of relationships that arose, contributed positively to the ideological and political maturity of the PCP and to its affirmation as the vanguard of the working class and the leading force of the anti-fascist struggle.
