National Issues
Political Resolution of the XXth Congress of the PCP (Excerpts)
4 December 2016
Unanimously approved by the XX Congress
Closing speech of the XX Congress
4 December 2016
On the verge of the closing of the XX Congress, we can say that we have successfully achieved the objectives we set ourselves.
The Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (CPR), resistance and struggle for an alternative
4 December 2016
Comrades
Subjected to a policy and to options subordinated to the interests of the monopoly capital and the European capitalist integration, Portugal has been dragged, over the last decades, by successive governments of the PS, PSD and CDS, into economic decline, social regression and dependency accompanied, on the political level, by the impoverishment of the democratic regime where the conflict with the Constitution of the Republic is the most visible element.
The national sovereignty, the movement for its defence and freeing the country for the submission to the Euro
4 December 2016
Comrades,
It is almost 15 years since the introduction of Euro bills and coins in our country. The PCP was the only voice that warned and fought the foreseeable impacts of the adhesion to the Single European Currency. The PCP did not follow the siren chants that heralded the end of crises, the shield of speculation with public debt, the convergence with the salary levels of the major powers, the growth and development of the country.
Nothing of what was sold to the Portuguese people came to be. Nothing of what was promised to the Portuguese people was accomplished.
The Party: organisation, means of intervention, and political and ideological independence
4 December 2016
Comrades and friends
A warm greeting to you all.
Motion «Commemorate the centennial of the October Revolution, affirm socialism as a demand of the present and of the future»
4 December 2016
Motion approved unanimously by the XX Congress of the PCP
2017 marks the centennial of the Socialist October Revolution that the PCP has decided to commemorate, under the motto "Socialism, a demand of the present and of the future".
The crisis in and of the European Union and the other Europe of Workers and Peoples
4 December 2016
Comrades
The European continent’s peoples are undergoing a time of great instability, major social and economic crisis, and democratic and civilisational retrogression.
Secretariat of the Central Committee
4 December 2016
Political Commission of the Central Committee
4 December 2016