National Issues
New Year's Message from Paulo Raimundo
29 December 2025
Confidence and hope. These are the words I address to all of you, to all those who live here, to all those who work here, and to all those who went out all over the world in search of the better life that Portugal denied them. It is true. It is true that the month is too long for the wages to last. It is true that we face the drama of access to housing, access to healthcare, and a shortage of teachers. It is true that there is a lack of nurseries, care homes, low pensions and retirement benefits, and that often only overtime and double jobs make it possible to get by.
The European Union between disdain for the problems of the people, the arms race business and the instigation of war
22 December 2025
On the conclusions of the European Council meeting of December 18 and 19, 2025
The European Council meeting held on December 18 and 19 was marked by the European Union's complete lack of concern for the economic and social problems affecting the lives of workers and peoples, by its insistence on a policy of confrontation, the arms trade and the prolongation of the war in Ukraine, and by its complicity with Israel's genocidal and colonial policy.
Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of December 15, 2025
15 December 2025
The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on December 15, 2025, analysed recent developments in the national situation and the mass struggle, the elections for President of the Republic, aspects of the international situation, addressed the intervention and strengthening of the PCP, and defined its priorities for action.
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National situation
1. The General Strike of December 11, in the course of the struggle of the workers and the people, has had a profound impact on national life.
General Strike, December 11, 2025: a rejection of the Labour Package and a great assertion of the workers’ strength
11 December 2025
The great and expressive scale of today’s General Strike is an enormous statement of the workers’ strength and unity, and a powerful expression of rejection of a labour package [of laws] at the service of capital, which was put forth by the PSD/CDS Government and which is supported by Chega and Inicativa Liberal [parties].
ALL FOR THE GENERAL STRIKE - December 11 - WHAT IS AT STAKE
11 December 2025
AGAINST THE LABOUR PACKAGE
What is at stake
Salaries crushed for colossal profits
Colossal profits and workers in difficulty, but the Government wants to further reduce low wages and devalue professions and careers:
use unemployment and unemployment benefits to lower wages;
All on General Strike tomorrow!
10 December 2025
With the legal coverage of the advance notice handed by CGTP-IN, which was supported and reinforced by others, all workers have the possibility and duty of class solidarity to join the general strike tomorrow, December 11. The reasons also affect everyone. We must reject and force the Government to withdraw the labour package, which threatens us all, and demand higher wages, more rights and more and better public services for everyone.
Raise National Minimum Wage to €1050 already in January!
10 December 2025
When everybody swears eternal love for wage increases, the PCP once again provides the opportunity for the Assembly of the Republic to decide to increase the national minimum wage to €1050 as early as January, thereby stimulating a general increase in wages and the valorisation of the careers and professions of all workers.
Those who say ‘wages yes, but not now’ will come up with the old refrain: companies can't cope, we need to create wealth and then distribute it, productivity has to increase, and so on...
Workers are not numbers and they are not parts; they are the ones who produce wealth and should be valued
5 December 2025
Mr. Prime Minister, a preliminary note: MP Mr. Hugo Soares kindly brought up the issues surrounding the labour package but managed to spend eight minutes talking about the labour package without mentioning a single measure contained in it. It should also be noted that CHEGA and Iniciativa Liberal tried to sidestep this issue, but Mr. Prime Minister, I would like to ask three specific questions.
Government diverts public resources to real estate speculation, driving up prices and increasing housing precariousness
4 December 2025
1. The changes in the fiscal field that the PSD/CDS Government intends to promote with the request for legislative authorisation submitted yesterday to the Assembly of the Republic constitute an unacceptable choice in favour of real estate speculation and fiscal injustice.
The diversion of public resources to real estate funds, banks and large real estate owners is at the heart of this tax package, which goes even further than what was announced in September.
2. Among other serious aspects, the following stand out:
We still have time to stop the economic crime that is the privatisation of TAP
4 December 2025
Let’s not repeat the same mistake! We still have time to stop the economic crime that is the privatisation of TAP.
A criminal investigation is underway into evidence of crimes committed during the process of the privatisation of TAP in 2015, but also during the period of private management, which the PCP denounced at the time because TAP was acquired by a private group with TAP's own money, and also denounced the excesses of private management.