Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of June 27 and 28, 2026

The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on June 27 and 28, 2026, analysed the country’s political and social situation, valued the workers’ struggle and the defeat of the Labour Package, evaluated developments in the international situation, and outlined the Party’s immediate course of action. It also assessed the implementation of the resolution on the Party and the strengthening of its organisation and activities.

«Struggle, path to victory»

What an important journey we are embarking on, and we have more than enough reasons for it to be so. Here is the victory march, here is the celebration of work, of resistance, of struggle. We said: we will not give up, the package is going to fall, and the package fell. A great victory for the workers. The Labour Package has been defeated.

A great victory of the workers in Portugal! The workers’ struggle has defeated the Labour Package in the workplaces, in the streets and in Parliament!

The workers in Portugal have achieved, through their struggle, a great victory in defending their labour and trade union rights, by defeating the Labour Package [of legislation] put forth by the PSD/CDS Government and which was supported by the bosses’ confederations. This is a great victory, which shows the decisive strength of the workers’ organization, struggle and unity.

MPs and political parties will have to decide: Are they on the side of the workers or on the side of the Government’s labour package?

Now is the moment of truth, every MP and every party will have to decide whether to vote against or in favour of even greater precariousness, even greater deregulation of working hours and people’s lives, even greater pressure on wages, the liberalisation of dismissals, or unpaid overtime through the “hour bank” scheme.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the urgency of the struggle for peace

6 August 2025

This is the 80th. anniversary of the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. Bombings that instantly caused around 200,000 deaths and left an unspeakable trail of destruction and suffering. A heinous crime against Humanity that absolutely nothing can justify, but which the US tried to excuse with the false argument of defeating Japan, when Japan was already militarily defeated and when in fact it was a demonstration of US military power and its aim of imposing US hegemony on the world.

The Portuguese government must respect Sahrawi people's right to self-determination

4 August 2025

The PCP rejects the Portuguese government's position of disrespecting the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people, which is enshrined in international law, in particular in repeated United Nations resolutions. The Portuguese government's alignment with the position of the Kingdom of Morocco represents support for the continuation of Morocco's illegal occupation of territories in Western Sahara, in direct violation of international law.

For an immediate recognition of the State of Palestine and an end to Israel's crimes

1 August 2025

In view of the government's announcement of contacts about a possible recognition of the State of Palestine, deferring a possible decision to September, the PCP reiterates that such a decision is urgent and should have already been implemented, as the PCP has repeatedly proposed in Parliament. The announcement that has now been made by the Prime Minister, is inseparable from the pressure of public opinion and the broad movement of solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of the ongoing crimes perpetrated by the State of Israel.

On the ‘trade’ agreement between the US and the European Union

30 July 2025

1. The US/EU agreement signed by Trump and Von der Leyen constitutes a deplorable act of surrender by the EU in the face of US impositions and interests. An agreement signed by the President of the European Commission that neglects the interests of EU countries and their peoples, particularly Portugal.

The PCP condemns the government's complicity in Israel's crimes

30 July 2025

No words can express the horror and suffering that Israeli Zionism and US imperialism are inflicting on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and also in the occupied territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, with the criminal complicity of the European Union. Day after day, the mainstream media show images of boundless violence and cruelty and a sinister accounting of the deliberate murder of populations, including the infamous imposition of starvation that is hitting babies and other children particularly hard.