National demonstration "Better wages, decent pensions and high-quality public services! Against the rising cost of living!", CGTP-IN

Tens of thousands of workers, young people and pensioners took part in the demonstrations organised by the CGTP-IN, filling the streets of Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra and Funchal and giving voice to their outrage at injustices and their demand for better wages, decent pensions and high-quality public services. While those who work struggle to pay their rent, mortgage payments and monthly shopping bills, the large economic groups are raking in millions in profits.

On Marco Rubio’s visit to Portugal

The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is one of the main architects of the criminal policy of confrontation, aggression and war promoted by US imperialism, which undermines the sovereignty and rights of peoples and openly flouts the principles of the UN Charter and international law.

The developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence and the need for a sovereign national strategy on AI

The growing impacts of the development and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which are inextricably linked to the social and political context in which they occur, can represent promising advances or, on the contrary, worrying setbacks. The PCP believes that Portugal needs a sovereign national strategy for AI, which will help to make the fullest possible use of the potentials opened up by its development whilst, at the same time, minimise the risks arising from its use. The PCP considers that the general objectives of this strategy should be:

On the elections in Brazil

What is at stake in the Brazilian elections is the defence of democracy and Brazil’s sovereignty, the continuation and deepening of a path towards liberty, rights and development, a path championed by Lula da Silva and Brazil’s democratic and progressive forces, or the imposition of a reactionary, putschist, fascistic agenda, subservient to and supported by US imperialism, spearheaded by Flávio Bolsonaro and the profoundly anti-democratic and anti-patriotic interests he represents.

Members of the European Parliament sign letter denouncing the US intention to prevent Palestinian representatives from participating in the UN General Assembly Session

2 September 2025

João Oliveira, Member of the European Parliament for the PCP, has issued an open letter for other MEPs to sign, urging the European Union institutions to take effective measures to ensure access and full participation of representatives of the Palestinian people in the proceedings of the United Nations General Assembly, which will place this month in New York.

On the Recognition of the State of Palestine by the Portuguese Government

21 September 2025

The Recognition of the State of Palestine by the Portuguese Government is a measure that was long overdue and should have been taken long ago. It is a measure that has been repeatedly proposed by the PCP for many years, particularly in the Assembly of the Republic, and which was systematically rejected by successive PSD/CDS and PS governments, under the cover ofvarious subterfuges to prevent Portugal from adopting a decision that it had the sovereign right to take.

Rally of the Avante! Festival 2025

Rally at the 49th. Avante! Festival

7 September 2025

To all the visitors, to those who never miss a Festival, to the many who have come for the first time, to those who have returned, welcome. A big greeting to each and every one of you, workers in this collective construction that is the Avante! Festival. Allow me to greet the artists, the sportspeople, all those who make the Festival happen and keep it running. A special greeting to the youth and the Portuguese Communist Youth, who are the living expression of this Festival that they have made their own.

On the worsening situation in Palestine and in the Middle East

25 August 2025

The PCP strongly condemns Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people, including its stated goal of colonising the Gaza Strip, and calls on the Portuguese Government to take a clear stance of condemnation of this new escalation and to develop effective initiatives aimed at putting an immediate end to the genocide of the Palestinian people.

PCP denounces provocative and militaristic escalation by the US in Latin America

22 August 2025

The PCP denounces and repudiates the provocative and aggressive actions by the Trump Administration currently underway in Latin America, namely in the Caribbean Sea, falsely invoking the fight against drug trafficking, and warns of the serious threat posed by the growth of militarism and interventionism by US imperialism to the sovereignty and rights of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples and to peace and security in the region.