National Issues
Statement by PCP Central Committee
Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of June 5 and 6, 2022
6 June 2022
The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on June 5 and 6, 2022, addressed the developments in the national and international situation and the tasks of the Party. It decided to hold a National Conference of the PCP on November 12 and 13.
Statement by Paula Santos, LEADER OF THE PARLIAMENTARY GROUP AND MEMBER OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, Assembleia da República, Press Conference
For peace! No to the instrumentalization of the Assembly of the Republic and the instigation of war
20 April 2022
The PCP reaffirms its stand of upholding the principles of the United Nations Charter and
international law and condemning a whole path of interference, violence and confrontation, the 2014 coup d'état, promoted by the US in Ukraine, which established a xenophobic and warmongering power, the recent Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the heightening of the warmongering escalation by the US, NATO and the European Union.
Release by from the PCP Press Office
Government evades raising wages and pensions and regulating prices to face the rising cost of living
11 April 2022
1. The measures now announced evade what is essential to combat speculation and rising prices and the inevitable increase in wages and pensions. And, above all, they ignore that the problems to which they say they want to respond are inseparable from the instigation of sanctions that are being imposed under the pretext of war, benefiting those who profit from them to the detriment of the interests of the workers and people.
Statement by João Ferreira, member of the Political Comission of the Central Committee, Press Conference
On the NATO summit and the Council of Europe meeting
28 March 2022
The NATO summit and the meeting of the Council of Europe, whose decisions essentially coincided, raise well-founded concerns and are part of a logic of confrontation that, politically, militarily and economically, is marking the evolution of the situation in Europe and in the world.
Statement by João Frazão, member of the Political Committee of the Central Committee
Agricultural production and food sovereignty in Portugal
23 March 2022
Recent times have brought to light the serious mistakes of an agricultural policy subject to the impositions of the European Union, with the application of the Common Agricultural Policy, and to the interests of large national agribusiness and the main producing countries in the Centre and North of the EU.
An agricultural policy applied, in turn, by PS, PSD and CDS, which brought us to a situation of dependence that today takes on dramatic contours.
Release by from the PCP Press Office
April is more future
22 March 2022
For months, the country has been facing an escalation in the prices of fuel and other products. An escalation that, with sanctions under the pretext of war, now knows even more brutal increases for the benefit of those who take advantage of them.
In addition to the unjustifiable increases in fuel prices, a few days ago we were faced with further increases in electricity, gas and food products.
Statement by Paulo Raimundo, member of the Secretariat and Political Committee of the Central Committee, Lisbon
No more injustice and impoverishment. No to the rising cost of living
17 March 2022
For months, the country has been facing an escalation in the prices of fuel and other products. An escalation that, with sanctions under the pretext of war, now knows even more brutal increases for the benefit of those who take advantage of them.
In addition to the unjustifiable increases in fuel prices, a few days ago we were faced with further increases in electricity, gas and food products.
Article by Jorge Cordeiro, Member of the Political Committee and of the Secretariat of the PCP’s Central Committee
«The political framework and the intervention of the PCP. Background, current situation and prospects»
11 March 2022
The ambition of the PS [Socialist Party] for an absolute majority, which led to the call for early elections, has been achieved. The manoeuvre set in motion to guarantee the interests and privileges of the ruling classes was accomplished with one of the possible solutions on which the centres of big capital and the promoters of right-wing policies were seeking What these interests gained, the country has lost in termos of the prospect of solving the problems confronting it. The policy needed to provide pressing answers for the lives of the workers and people is now more distant.
Presentation by Albano Nunes at the Conference “100 years of the PCP” promoted by the Institute of Contemporary History of NOVA-FCSH
«The Portuguese Communist Party and the general and particular in the Portuguese Revolution»
11 March 2022
Presentation by Albano Nunes at the Conference “100 years of the PCP” promoted by the Institute of Contemporary History of NOVA-FCSH [Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities – Lisbon New University], at the Municipal Library of Alcântara in Lisbon, on November 4, 5, 6, 2021.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, Secretário-Geral, Lisboa, Rally «The Future has a Party. Freedom, Democracy, Socialism»
«Here we are ready to fight the battles of the present and the future»
6 March 2022
Warmest and most cordial greetings to all at this magnificent Anniversary Rally of our Party and the closing of its Centenary celebrations, a day of struggle for rights, peace, freedom, democracy and socialism. A greeting in particular to the many democrats without party affiliation who are here with us at this very special moment for us Portuguese communists.