National Issues
A brief history of Party Congresses
28 November 2004
The history of the PCP has been one of struggle: struggles for liberty, for democracy and workers' rights, against injustice and exploitation, and always on the side of the workers and the people, showing the way to socialism. There has been also reflection and study, discussion and the argument of ideas.
Motion - For Peace and Solidarity among the Peoples
28 November 2004
We live in difficult times, times of great insecurity and uncertainty.
Imperialism’s growing aggressiveness confronts Humanity with untold dangers, as is well testified by two major wars of aggression – Afghanistan and Iraq.
The US invasion and occupation of Iraq was based upon lies and ignored the extraordinary anti-war movement that arose all over the world.
Closing speech on the XVII Congress of the Portuguese Communist Party
28 November 2004
Comrade delegates, comrades and friends, national guests, esteemed comrades and friends of the foreign delegations
We are on the verge of closing our 17th Congress.
The international situation and the Party’s international activity
27 November 2004
Comrades,
The most striking feature of the world evolution during the last four years, is the brutal escalation of imperialism’s offensive to expand the domination of big capital to the whole planet.
Theses to the XVII PCP Congress (The International Situacion)
26 November 2004
1. The international situacion
1.0. Introduction
Opening the 17th Party Congress - Speech by Carlos Carvalhas
26 November 2004
Dear comrades, dear friends
Esteemed national and foreign guests
I would like to thank and greet you for your solidary presence, and as well fraternally greet all the comrade delegates, and through you the generous collective of the Party, which is made up by several generations of communists who created, rooted and strengthened this great Party, the Portuguese Communist Party.
Communiqué of the Central Committee Portuguese Communist Party
15 June 2004
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On the election results
1. The Central Committee of the PCP, in a first appreciation, underlines that the most relevant and decisive aspect of last Sunday’s election results is a great and severe defeat of the PSD-CDS coalition, a clear expression of the wide popular discontent with its governance and a clear condemnation of its policy.
Communiqué PCP’s Central Committee - 6 December 2003
6 December 2003
(Extracts)
The Central Committee of the PCP, in its meeting on 5th- 6th December. 2003, analysed aspects of the national and international situation, took a batch of decisions and guidelines to strengthen the Party, set a calendar for several initiatives in 2004 and convoked the 17th. Congress.
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PSD/CDS-PP GOVERNMENT: AN EXTRAORDINARILY DANGEROUS OFFENSIVE
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Communiqué of the Central Committee - 10 October 2003
20 October 2003
(extracts)
“(…) The PCP’s Central Committee reaffirms its strong opposition to the draft of the new Treaty for the European Union drawn up by the “Convention”, a text that will serve as the point of departure for the proceedings of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) that started on October 4th.