Posições Políticas
20 years of war and occupation of Iraq - lies, death, suffering and destruction
20 March 2023
Today marks the 20th. anniversary of the war and occupation of Iraq by the United States of America and its allies. The 2003 “Iraq war” constituted a flagrant violation of international law and of the sovereignty of that country, a crime launched based on a campaign of lies, going down in history the unspeakable staging by the then US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, in the UN Security Council, by presenting a list of falsehoods regarding the existence of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq which, as it turned out, did not exist.
A great day of workers’ struggle
18 March 2023
It is a great day of struggle, with a mobilisation that everybody can witness.
But perhaps the most decisive question is how all these people are here, with many problems, with many difficulties, but with a determination to want to solve problems, with all this strength.
And therefore, I can say that it is a great joy, it is a great day of workers’ struggle.
The reasons are many and they are fair, like the rising cost of living, low wages, pressure and difficulties regarding housing.
This has to be solved. It can't go on like this.
PCP demands an immediate end to violence against the Palestinian people
8 March 2023
The PCP strongly condemns the brutal heightening of Israeli repression against the Palestinian people and warns of the danger of a new escalation in the policy of forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and lands by the current Zionist Government of Israel.
PCP demands that the US remove Cuba from the illegitimate «list of countries sponsoring terrorism»
7 March 2023
The PCP repudiates the US Administration’s provocative decision to keep Cuba on the arbitrary “list of countries sponsoring terrorism”, going against Biden’s promises to reverse this unacceptable measure that was enacted by the Trump Administration days before the end of its term.
For peace! End the escalation of confrontation and war!
23 February 2023
The escalation of the war in Ukraine, a war that has been going on for nine years and which urgently needs to end, is of great concern to all those who aspire to a world of peace.
The arms escalation and the resulting continuation and intensification of the war entail growing and serious consequences and dangers for the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, for the peoples of Europe and the whole world.
On the announcement of a decoration to Zelensky
16 February 2023
The announced award of the highest degree of the «Order of Freedom» by the President of the Republic to Zelenski can only be received with outrage by all those who know the value of the struggle for freedom that the Portuguese people waged over decades against the fascist regime. On the eve of the celebrations of the 50th.
«Only a great conviction about the justice of these demands is what makes all these people gather in this way»
11 February 2023
I am here to express solidarity with the struggle of the teachers, just as I have been in other actions, just as several leaders of my Party have been in all districts of our country, and because the struggle of the teachers is just, their claims, indeed, as can be seen in this formidable mobilisation that is taking place. What matters are the just claims of the teachers, the valorisation of their career, the respect they deserve. This is what is at stake today. In fact, it is at stake very strongly, as witnessed here in the streets.
«A momentous day of struggle by those who work in Portugal»
9 February 2023
We are witnessing a great day of workers' struggle, a day of outrage, protest and struggle. A very significant set of actions, strikes, stoppages, with expression on the streets, as you can see here, with all this determination, in a struggle that is amply justified.
A struggle for wages, a struggle against the rising cost of living. A struggle for price regulation, against precariousness. In the end, a struggle for the rights of those who produce our country's wealth. The people who are here deserve a better life, a decent life which is something they don't have.
PCP starts campaign «More strength to the workers»
1 February 2023
With more than fifty initiatives, the PCP starts tomorrow, February 2, the action “More strength to the workers”, which will be carried out with the workers in companies and workplaces all over the country, until the end of May.
An initiative, involving contact actions, propaganda, distribution of documents, meetings, testimonials, which aims to denounce the problems faced by the workers and which seeks to affirm the importance of work and workers, promoting the valorisation of their wages, working times, employment relationships, rights and working conditions.
«Amílcar Cabral was assassinated but his generous ideals did not die»
19 January 2023
Tomorrow will mark 50 years since, on January 20, 1973, Amílcar Cabral, founder and Secretary General of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), was assassinated in Conakry – capital of the Republic of Guinea and rear-guard for the popular struggle of the peoples of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde for their independence. Murdered by agents in the pay of the Portuguese fascist and colonialist regime.