Portuguese Communist Party

As has always been the case at the beginning of each term, a still ongoing debate is currently being held within the Confederal Group of the United European Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) regarding its constitution and internal organization.

In the aftermath of the Polish Government’s initiative to undertake a process of amendment to the penal code of the country, through which, in particular with the inclusion of article 256, it aims to criminalize communist ideology and ban the activity of Polish communists, the Portuguese Communist Party addressed a letter to the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Portugal, reaffirming its firm repudiation of the intensification of the anti-communist campaign in Poland and the repeated acts of political and legal harassment aimed at the leaders and activists of the Communist Party of Polan

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

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.