PCP demands that the US remove Cuba from the illegitimate «list of countries sponsoring terrorism»

7 March 2023

The PCP repudiates the US Administration’s provocative decision to keep Cuba on the arbitrary “list of countries sponsoring terrorism”, going against Biden’s promises to reverse this unacceptable measure that was enacted by the Trump Administration days before the end of its term.

Solidarity with Bolivarian Venezuela

7 March 2023

Condemning the renewal of the Executive Order, decreed on March 8, 2015, by the US Administration, headed by Obama, which unacceptably named Venezuela as "an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States", the PCP reaffirms solidarity with Bolivarian Venezuela.

For peace! End the escalation of confrontation and war!

23 February 2023

The escalation of the war in Ukraine, a war that has been going on for nine years and which urgently needs to end, is of great concern to all those who aspire to a world of peace. The arms escalation and the resulting continuation and intensification of the war entail growing and serious consequences and dangers for the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, for the peoples of Europe and the whole world.

On the announcement of a decoration to Zelensky

16 February 2023

The announced award of the highest degree of the «Order of Freedom» by the President of the Republic to Zelenski can only be received with outrage by all those who know the value of the struggle for freedom that the Portuguese people waged over decades against the fascist regime. On the eve of the celebrations of the 50th.

«Only a great conviction about the justice of these demands is what makes all these people gather in this way»

11 February 2023

I am here to express solidarity with the struggle of the teachers, just as I have been in other actions, just as several leaders of my Party have been in all districts of our country, and because the struggle of the teachers is just, their claims, indeed, as can be seen in this formidable mobilisation that is taking place. What matters are the just claims of the teachers, the valorisation of their career, the respect they deserve. This is what is at stake today. In fact, it is at stake very strongly, as witnessed here in the streets.

CGTP-IN demonstration «National Day of Outrage, Protest and Struggle»

«A momentous day of struggle by those who work in Portugal»

9 February 2023

We are witnessing a great day of workers' struggle, a day of outrage, protest and struggle. A very significant set of actions, strikes, stoppages, with expression on the streets, as you can see here, with all this determination, in a struggle that is amply justified. A struggle for wages, a struggle against the rising cost of living. A struggle for price regulation, against precariousness. In the end, a struggle for the rights of those who produce our country's wealth. The people who are here deserve a better life, a decent life which is something they don't have.

PCP expresses solidarity with the Syrian and Turkish people

7 February 2023

Upon learning of the tragic consequences of the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey, the Portuguese Communist Party conveyed, through the parties with which it has relations, the most heartfelt condolences and deep solidarity of the Portuguese communists to the Syrian and Turkish people. The PCP expressed hope that the response to the immediate needs of the affected populations could be assured, including through the urgent mobilisation of international aid, and that the terrible consequences of this catastrophe would be overcome as quickly as possible.

PCP starts campaign «More strength to the workers»

1 February 2023

With more than fifty initiatives, the PCP starts tomorrow, February 2, the action “More strength to the workers”, which will be carried out with the workers in companies and workplaces all over the country, until the end of May. An initiative, involving contact actions, propaganda, distribution of documents, meetings, testimonials, which aims to denounce the problems faced by the workers and which seeks to affirm the importance of work and workers, promoting the valorisation of their wages, working times, employment relationships, rights and working conditions.

Session evoking Amílcar Cabral, on the 50th anniversary of his assassination

«Amílcar Cabral was assassinated but his generous ideals did not die»

19 January 2023

Tomorrow will mark 50 years since, on January 20, 1973, Amílcar Cabral, founder and Secretary General of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), was assassinated in Conakry – capital of the Republic of Guinea and rear-guard for the popular struggle of the peoples of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde for their independence. Murdered by agents in the pay of the Portuguese fascist and colonialist regime.

The European Parliament instigates confrontation and war - the peoples want peace and cooperation

19 January 2023

The European Parliament's resolution regarding the creation of a so-called «special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine», which is conceived to meet the interests of the USA, NATO and the European Union, is one more maneouvre that seeks to carry even further the policy of confrontation and war.