National Issues
Focused on workers’ living conditions: the labour package, wages and rights
29 May 2026
The life of the workers, the reality of the Country, and the ongoing attack on their rights through the Labour package: this is the theme of the parliamentary question we are putting to the Government today.
A process that takes place against a backdrop of growing hardship for the general public, who are facing rising prices that threaten to persist and worsen, increasing difficulties in accessing public services, particularly healthcare, and difficulties in accessing housing due to speculation encouraged by the Government.
The PCP proposes a committee of inquiry to establish responsibility for supporting US and Israeli aggression
15 May 2026
The Portuguese Government’s position of vassalage towards the United States of America and Israel is a disgrace to the Country. They are abdicating national sovereignty and independence to align themselves shamelessly with those who unabashedly flout the principles of the United Nations Charter and international law, with those who repress peoples fighting for their self-determination and the right to decide sovereignly on their future and that of their Country, with those who promote confrontation and war.
Your war serves the arms industry, the profits of GALP, SONAE, Jerónimo Martins and the banks, but not the people
15 May 2026
Portugal, as defined by the Constitution of the Republic, can only act as an uncompromising defender of international law, a builder of peace, and an advocate for the political resolution of conflicts.
After two world wars and millions of deaths, it is easy to conclude that war must be stopped and that everything must be done to ensure it never returns.
It is true that Portugal alone cannot impose peace.
But it can and must, together with other countries, break away from the chorus of the madness of war and the arms race.
The Assembly of the Republic cannot remain indifferent to the US’s inhumane blockade of Cuba
8 May 2026
The Assembly of the Republic cannot remain indifferent to the escalation of the blockade and the threats of military aggression made by the US President against Cuba, a sovereign nation with which Portugal has long-standing diplomatic and friendly relations.
An inhumane and criminal blockade and unacceptable threats which, in flagrant violation of the principles of the UN Charter and international law, undermine the sovereignty and rights of the Cuban people.
There is no patch up to a proposal that increases exploitation
6 May 2026
On May Day, Labour Day, workers took to the streets all over the Country in a highly expressive and determined show of strength. They made it abundantly clear that they reject the labour reforms proposed by the Government and employers, refusing to accept any rollbacks or the removal of their rights. They demanded better wages to counter the rising cost of living. They demanded the decent life to which they and their families are entitled.
Cuba will win, thanks to the courage and dignity of the Cuban people and the solidarity of the peoples of the world
19 April 2026
Cuba will win, thanks to the courage and dignity of the Cuban people and the solidarity of the peoples of the world
I would like to thank for the honourable invitation extended to the Portuguese Communist Party to participate in this important Conference, under the theme ‘Cuba, the Revolution and the World’, jointly organised by the Portugal-Cuba Friendship Association and other organisations and personalities who support the solidarity movement with Cuba.
Thousands of workers take to the streets against the Labour Package
17 April 2026
A flood of people filled the streets of Lisbon today, from Saldanha to the Assembly of the Republic, in a powerful show of strength by those who work and will not accept setbacks.
Whilst they gather in offices to hammer out the details of further exploitation, the workers, called by the CGTP-IN, take to the streets to say, “enough is enough”. Enough of poverty wages. Enough of job precariousness. Enough of measures such as the “hour bank” that steal time and rights.
On the elections in Hungary
14 April 2026
The result of the Hungarian elections is marked by the defeat of Fidesz – the political force that has ruled the country for the past 16 years – and by the victory of Tisza – the party led by Péter Magyar, who until recently was a member of the party led by Viktor Orbán –, now with only right-wing and far-right forces represented in Parliament, which suggests the continuation of policies contrary to the interests of the workers and the Hungarian people.