Posições Políticas

Stop the escalation of the anticommunist and antidemocratic attacks in Europe

The decision made by the government of Estonia to remove the monument honoring the memory 270.000 Red Army soldiers dead in the antifascist fight followed by brutal police attacks in Tallin-, the acts of vandalism of the grave of Janos Kadar in Budapest on 2 May, the implementation of the new "lustration law" in Poland targeting 700.000 people, the anticommunist Romanian National Security Law,

Solidarity with the Communists and the Working Class in Turkey

We, the undersigned communist and workers parties, vehemently condemn the police attacks against the tens of thousands workers demonstrating on the 30th anniversary of the May Day 1977 in Taksim Square in Istanbul.

II European Meeting "Education for All"

Contribution of the PCP by Rita Magrinho - Brussels, March 23rd, 2007

On the foundation of the European Economic Community (EEC)

The Rome Treaty for the foundation of the EEC was an option of the main powers and West European monopolist capital. Today, 50 years later, the developments in the EU vindicate the forces that struggled against its policies, that had said and still say NO to the Maastricht Treaty, that voice their opposition to the “Constitutional Treaty”.

On the attempts in the European Union to intensify interference manoeuvres and threats against Cuba

The Portuguese Communist Party alerts to the seriousness of the intentions declared by the current German Presidency of the European Union to promote the approval of a “Medium and Long term strategy for Cuba” which foresees, besides political and diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, a secret chapter of hostile actions, similar to the so-called “Bush Plan to overthrow the Cuban regime”.

On the results of the Referendum on the depenalization of the «Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy»

1. It is with an understandable pleasure that we, the PCP, who for years has been fighting on behalf of this important cause and given a decisive contribution for the success of this struggle, would like to greet this important victory of YES and its deep meaning.

Comrade Sergio Vilarigues passed away

It is with deep regret and sadness that the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party announces the death today, February 8, at the age of 92 years, of Sérgio Vilarigues, one of the outstanding communist leaders during more than eight and a half decades of the history of the PCP, and a life dedicated to the struggle of the workers and to his everlasting party, to freed

Political Resolution of the Central Committee - 12th January 2007

The PCP Central Committee assembled during the 12th and 13th January 2007, proceeded to the analysis of the national political situation, at a moment which is particularly marked by the brutal worsening of the cost of living and by the offensive against the workers rights, and examined the development of the workers and the portuguese peoples struggle, highlighting the importance and meaning of th

PCP condemns US aggression against Somalia

In view of the serious situation in the Horn of Africa, the PCP:

1 – Condemns the North American military aggression against Somalia which constitutes an unacceptable act of state terrorism and has already caused the death of dozens of civilians and represents the opening of a new front of imperialist war in the region around the Middle East.

How the PCP was born

At the end of World War I ( 1914 - 1918 ), Portugal plunged into a serious economic crisis, with an abrupt rise in prices and unemployment.

The year 1919 was marked by the most significant wave of workers’ struggles, as a result of deteriorating living standards.