National Issues

An important political-cultural initiative with great political significance
10 September 2020
The «Avante!» Festival, an initiative promoted by the Portuguese Communist Party, which took place from the 4th to the 6th of September, respecting and complying with the health protection rules, was an important political-cultural initiative with great political significance.

The future has a Party
8 September 2020
Honouring history and our commitment of all times, we leave the Avante! Festival, aware of the demands we face, determined in the action, confident of the future

Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary, Atalaia, Amora, Seixal, Rally of the 44th. “Avante!” Festival
«In these three days we have recovered the joy of living»
6 September 2020
Dear guests!
Dear friends and comrades!
Warm greetings to all of you who are here with the strength of your presence. Greetings to all the builders who participated in the days of work with that unique militancy and generosity, to all the participants and visitors of our Avante! Festival. A especial greeting to the youth and the JCP, always with their massive presence, their indispensable contribution in raising this space of freedom and ensuring its exemplary functioning.

Message by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary, Atalaia, Amora, Seixal, «Avante!» Festival
Opening of the «Avante!» Festival 2020
4 September 2020
Welcome to Atalaia/Quinta do Cabo.
Greetings to the neighbours of the Festival, the youth, the democrats and friends of the Avante! Festival.

Why we hold the «Avante!» Festival
31 August 2020
Articulating at every step with the relevant authorities and assessing the evolution of the epidemiological situation, the PCP will hold the “Avante!” Festival with the responsibility for which it is renowned, with an educational approach to the prevention and protection which continues to be necessary, and ensuring all the necessary sanitary measures.

Release by from the PCP Press Office
Defend democracy and the rights of the workers and people – Hold the “Avante!” Festival in safety
31 August 2020
The holding of the Avante! Festival has been the cloak for a gigantic reactionary operation that, more than the Festival itself, aims to attack the PCP and above all to pave the way for limiting the exercise of the rights and freedoms of the workers and people, namely the right to resist the liquidation of their rights, as seen with the campaign against this year’s May Day.

Release by from the PCP Press Office
Avante! Festival: Guarantees as always, enhanced guarantees. Tranquillity, security and liberty
14 August 2020
The holding of the Avante! Festival is always, and this year in particular, an important political affirmation of the exercise of democratic rights and intervention in defence of the interests of workers and people.

Statement by João Ferreira, Member of the Central Committee of the PCP
On the European Council conclusions
21 July 2020
1. More than the deep fractures and contradictions that run through the European Union, the European Council meeting highlighted the very nature of an integration process that intrinsically generates inequalities, divergences and asymmetries, in which capitalist competition in the single market prevails over any prospect of solidarity between States, which in practice is confirmed to be non-existent.

Statement by João Frazão, Member of the Political Committee of the Central Committee of the PCP
Forest fires and the defence of the forest
11 July 2020
We are once again in the critical period of forest fires. In the next two months, as the last few weeks have already signalled, we run the serious risk of seeing rural and forester owners losing parts of their farms, populations in distress seeing the fires approach, hundreds of fire-fighters and other civil protection operatives risking their life to fight fires and to protect people and property.

Statement by João Dias Coelho, Member of the Political Committee of the Central Committee of the PCP, Lisboa, Public Hearing «For a Public Administration at the service of the people and the country»
For a Public Administration at the service of the people and the country
10 July 2020
If there is evidence that the Covid -19 epidemic outbreak brought to light it was the importance of public services and their workers.