Posições Políticas

General Secretary of PCP

Jerónimo Carvalho de Sousa

- Metalworker (MEC factory). Fifty-nine (59) years old.
- Born in Santa Iria de Azóia (Loures municipality, Portugal).
- Completed the fourth year of the Industrial Course.
- Is married, with two daughters.
- Has been a PCP member since 1974.
- Elected to the PCP Central Committee at the Ninth Congress (1979).

Portuguese Communist Party - Constitution

CHAPTER I
THE PARTY

Art. 1

1. The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) founded on March 6, 1921, is the political party of the proletariat, the party of the working class and of all Portuguese workers.

The Secretariat of the Central Committee [2004-2008]

Albano Nunes
Intelectual - 63 years old
Alexandre Araújo
Intelectual - 34 years old
(entry to the Secretariat of the CC on the 21st April 2006)
Francisco Lopes
Factory Worker- 49 years old
Jerónimo de Sousa
Metalworker - 57 years old
Jorge Cordeiro
Service Employee - 51 years old

Political Committee of the Central Committe [2004-2008]

Agostinho Lopes
Engineer. 60 years
Albano Nunes
Intelectual. 63 years
Armindo Miranda
Service Employee. 51 years
Bernardino Soares 
Graduate in Law. 33 years
Carlos Gonçalves
Service Employee. 53 years
Fernanda Mateus
Textile Worker. 45 years
Francisco Lopes

Statement on the NATO summit in Riga

The Riga NATO summit of 29th of November 2006 constitutes a further step in the reinforcement of NATO as “gendarme du monde” and of its vital role in promoting the reactionary policies of big capital, of plundering natural and energy resources, in occupying and destabilizing sovereign countries, in subverting democratic rights and liberties, in backing reactionary forces and slandering the popular

Press Release - Final 12/11/2006

1 An International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties took place, in Lisbon, on November 10, 11 and 12, 2006, under the theme “Dangers and potentialities of the international situation. The strategy of imperialism and the energy issue, the struggle of peoples and the Latin America experience, the prospect of socialism.”

Motion of solidarity with Latin America and Cuba

enc-internac-2006

For a long time, the peoples of Latin America have been the victims of the permanent policies of plunder and domination by US imperialism.

Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary of the PCP - At the International Rally

The International Rally PCP – 85 years of solidarity with the peoples in struggle

Comrades,

List of Parties Attending

LIST OF PARTIES ATTENDING
(in the Portuguese alphabetical order, of their countries)

South African Communist Party
German Communist Party  (DKP)
Algeria - PADS
Communist Party  of Argentina
Communist Party  of Australia
National Liberation Front of Bahrain
Workers’ Party of Belgium
Communist Party  of Bolivia
Communist Workers’ Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Communist Party of Brazil