Rally of the «Avante!» Festival 2021
September 5, 2021
Warmest greetings to all of you, to all the builders, participants and visitors to the Avante! Festival. The Festival of an irreplaceable newspaper, the central organ of this Portuguese Communist Party. This Party, founded on March 6, 1921, which in this year 2021 has completed 100 years of life and struggle!
On the recent developments in Afghanistan
August 17, 2021
The recent developments in Afghanistan, including the entry of the Taliban in Kabul, regardless of their future evolution, constitute a clear and humiliating defeat for the US, NATO and all those who participated and colluded in their strategy of war and occupation, including successive Portuguese governments – war and occupation that the PCP opportunely denounced and condemned.
76 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki - «The importance of the struggle for peace and disarmament»
August 9, 2021
There are milestones that, due to their importance in the march of Humanity, cannot remain forgotten, but rather must be signalled with respect for historical truth, calling to the present the teachings they hold. Such is the case of August 6 and 9, 1945, the two days when the United States Air Force dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, committing one of the most heinous crimes in history and making the USA the only country that, to this day, has used a nuclear weapon.
End US blockade - Solidarity with Cuba
July 12, 2021
Denouncing and repudiating the actions of destabilisation and provocation that the US promotes, cynically instrumentalising the harmful consequences of the blockade for which they are responsible, the PCP highlights the example of courage and dignity of Cuba and of the Cuban people and calls for solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and the demand for an end to the US blockade against Cuba, as reiterated by the United Nations General Assembly last June.
Solidarity with the German Communist Party
9 July 2021
It is with deep concern that the Portuguese Communist Party became aware of the decision of the German Federal Electoral Committee not to admit the participation of the German Communist Party in the parliamentary elections taking place on 26 September.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, Secretário-Geral, Algueirão - Mem Martins, Sintra, Public Hearing in defence of the NHS
«vital to make a strong bet on primary health care, the gateway to the NHS»
1 July 2021
Our public hearing is part of a more global initiative, carried out by the PCP during the last two weeks of clarification and mobilisation of workers and populations, for the defence and reinforcement of the National Health Service.
Here, in the municipality of Sintra, the populations are well aware of what it means not to increase the real potential of the NHS.
Speech by , Assembly of the Republic
Fight against precariousness, 35 hours of weekly work, 25 days of vacation and stop dismissals!
30 June 2021
The PCP called this debate to enshrine and restore rights that are owed to the workers.
Fight precariousness, set 35 hours of weekly work as the maximum limit for all workers, in the public and private sectors, enshrine the right to 25 days of annual vacation, stop dismissals by revoking the rules that allowed its facilitation. These are the proposals that are being debated today and that constitute some of the solutions advocated by the PCP for the enshrinement of rights due to the workers.
Statement by João Ferreira, Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Political Committee of the Central Committeemité Central, Lisboa
On the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union
30 June 2021
The Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union confirmed, in essence, the alignment of the Portuguese government with the guidelines and policies of the European Union, namely in their most negative features, which are determined by the interests of the main powers and major economic and financial groups.
Statement by PCP Central Committee
Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of June 28, 2021
28 June 2021
The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on June 28, 2021, analysed aspects of the national and international situation, the development of the mass struggle, the preparation of Local Elections and the strengthening of the Party's organisation and initiative.
Release by from the PCP Press Office
For the immediate end of the criminal US blockade against Cuba
23 June 2021
Today, June 23, the United Nations General Assembly will vote for the 29th. time a resolution calling for the end of the blockade imposed by the United States of America against the Republic of Cuba.
The criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed 62 years ago by the US against Cuba and the Cuban people constitutes an unacceptable coercive measure against a sovereign State, adopted unilaterally and with an extraterritorial character, and which openly affronts the principles of the United Nations Charter and International Law.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary, Lisboa, PCP Parliamentary Conference
«This is a time that requires us not to waive continuing the necessary fight for the valorisation of work and workers»
21 June 2021
Comrades,
We are holding our Parliamentary Conference with a programme covering the entire Lisbon Metropolitan Area, paying particular attention to its problems and of the people who live and work here, but also with an eye on the situation in the country, on the living conditions of the workers and of the people, and determined by the aim of giving them better solutions with our initiative and proposal.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, Secretário-Geral, Lisboa, Session «The PCP and the emancipation of women – Centuries of struggle of the present and of the future»
The PCP and the emancipation of women – Centuries of struggle of the present and of the future
19 June 2021
As Marx stated, with recognised accuracy, the degree of female emancipation is the natural measure of the degree of the universal emancipation. The remarkable advances in the condition and rights of women in the 20th century, in Portugal and in the world, are closely linked to political, social and civilisational development, an integral part of their struggle and the struggle of workers and peoples for the progressive transformation of society, and are in the wake of the many achievements made by this broader struggle.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary, Lisboa, Debate with young people «The everyday struggle in the struggle for the future»
The everyday struggle in the struggle for the future
18 June 2021
I would like to begin by greeting you for this initiative to debate, in the context of the Centenary of our Party, the everyday struggles.
A special greeting both to those who took a little time from their studies in this final stage of the school year, and for many in the crucial stage of university access, or to those who, at the end of a long day’s work, are here with us to debate the problems, interests and aspirations of the youth.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, Secretário-Geral, Lisboa, Seminar «The role of national production in promoting the country's development - The impacts of European Union policies»
«There is no solution to national problems without a reversal of the policy of abandoning national production»
17 June 2021
I would like to start by thanking you for your presence as well as valuing the set of interventions made here on a central issue for the country's development, for the well-being of the Portuguese people, for the future of Portugal as a sovereign nation – the defence and development of national production.