National Issues
PCP’s activity in the European Parliament
14 December 2024
Comrades,
The period since the last congress has been difficult and demanding. The deterioration of living conditions, the worsening of inequalities and social injustices, the worrying developments in the international situation, especially the pandemic and the escalation of confrontation and war, have marked these four years in a particularly negative way.
In addition, there has been a violent offensive against the Party with the aim of conditioning or even preventing our action and the affirmation of our political positions.
The International Situation
14 December 2024
Comrades:
We live in times of great instability and uncertainty.
The international situation has worsened substantially. The escalation of confrontation and war by imperialism spreads throughout the world. International tensions are rising to very dangerous levels and the threat of a global conflict of catastrophic proportions is growing.
And the question is obvious: how did it come to this?
Education - The Public Education System
14 December 2024
Education, which should be a cause for hope among our people, is today, on the contrary, a cause of great anxiety and deep concern. This is the result of the political and ideological offensive against the right to education and the Public Education System.
This offensive is centred on a very strong commitment to maintaining education as a means for the reproduction of capitalism, reproducing the material and ideological conditions for its own existence.
Rupture and alternative. Patriotic and left-wing policy. The aim of the struggle today. Contents and objectives.
14 December 2024
Comrades
At the present moment, the political objectives of the PCP's action are a rupture with the right-wing policy and the affirmation of an alternative, patriotic and left-wing policy, which goes hand in hand with the defence of the democratic regime and the implementation of the rights and the project enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic.
What, after all, is this alternative policy that has been talked about so much here at this Congress? How can we implement it? What are its contents and objectives?
The Struggle Against Imperialism and for Peace
14 December 2024
Comrades,
I warmly welcome the delegates and guests to this important XXII Congress of the PCP, held at a time of resistance and struggle in our country and when, internationally, conflicts with dramatic consequences for the peoples of the world are growing, but the denunciation of imperialist aggression and calls for peace from many different quarters are also making themselves heard.
The Party’s link to the masses
14 December 2024
Comrades and friends,
It is in the link with the masses, the knowledge of the concrete reality and the ability to intervene and transform it that the Party's social, political, ideological and electoral influence depends on.
The link with the masses is both an objective of the Party's action and the source of its strength.
The Party organization – reason and role
14 December 2024
Here we stand, the Portuguese Communist Party, holding its XXII Congress, analysing the reality in which it intervenes, reaffirming its confidence in the strength and capacity of the workers and people to face the difficult times ahead, aware that these are times of resistance and struggle, but also times to face reality , with courage, determination and capacity for initiative.
Here we are giving an account of the work done.
The role of cadres
14 December 2024
Comrades,
When we talk about the role of cadres, we are talking about the structural base of our Party. They, the cadres, are the factor on which all our action, intervention and party activity is based.
Without them, without the many, many thousands of comrades - men, women, young people - who drive our Party, who give it body, who give it life, who make it work, our Party would not be in a position to respond, as it has responded, to the problems it faces.
Report of the Drafting Committee
13 December 2024
The report of the Drafting Committee which was distributed contains information on the accepted amendments to Proposal of Political Resolution submitted to the XXII Congress.
These days of work are the culmination of a preparatory debate that confirmed the involvement of the Party's collective and its decisive role in building the Party's analysis and orientation.
Raise wages and pensions, for a better life
13 December 2024
Comrades,
Portugal is an impoverished country, with deep injustices and inequalities.
The purchasing power of wages and pensions is languishing; public services (including the NHS and public schools) are degrading; housing is increasingly expensive. The economy is not improving, but the profits of the big economic and financial groups continue to break records. Those who rely on their work to live and who create the country's wealth or have worked during their lifetime, continue to see the results of their labour serving only to fatten the profits of the few.