National Issues

Central Control Commission

The struggle for building a patriotic and left-wing alternative

Today, after 40 years of right-wing policy, 30 years of capitalist integration of the European Union and after the devastating consequences of the application of the Pact of Aggression, there increasing number of Portuguese who, looking at the situation of the country, recognize that it is not possible to face the national problems without breaking with the external and internal constraints and without achieving a policy in defense of the people and the country, that takes advantage of its potentials, overcomes present deficits and develops guaranteeing a better life for our people.

The struggle of the working class and the workers and the mass struggle

Dear Comrades, Friends and Invitees It is a central thesis of our Party, which life confirms: it is the struggle of the working class and the workers that pushes the wheel of history towards progress and emancipation.

Motion «The struggle of the working class and workers, motor of the mass struggle and social transformation»

Targets of a violent offensive against labor and social rights, the working class and the workers resisted and fought, with determination and confidence, in defense of their rights and interests and for the defeat of the PSD/CDS-PP government and the right wing policies, imposed upon the Portuguese over the last 40 years and exponentially aggravated during the last legislature.

The Party's Organization

Comrades Among the measures adopted over the past few years to strengthen the Party, it is worthwhile mentioning the Central Committe's Resolution «More organization, more intervention, more influence – a stronger PCP» and heighlighting the National Recruitment Campaign and the nationwide action of contacts with Party members to enhance their militancy, update data and deliver Party membership cards, which had a great impact on the Party's collective.

Mandates Verification Committee Report

The Mandates Verification Committee has examined the documentation concerning the election of delegates to the 20th PCP Congress. We have 1154 delegates present. After having examined the minutes of the Elective Assemblies’ meetings and the credentials of all delegates present, the Mandates Verification Committee confirms their mandates, as they are in accordance with the Rules for Party debate and election of delegates.

The Working-class and Trade Union Movement

Greetings to the working class movement and to the workers, whose example, courage and determination inspired the struggle of other sectors and who, when everything seemed inevitable and when others were folding their arms, were present - in the workplaces, the shopfloors, the streets - and were resisting and fighting back, asserting themselves as the great driving force of the mass struggle. Special greetings to the broad Trade Union movement and to the great Trade Union central of the Portuguese workers, CGTP – Intersindical Nacional.