Posições Políticas
«The fascist coup in Chile shows that big capital, whenever it feels its dominance in danger, is tempted to resort to all means and the greatest crimes»
11 September 2023
On September 11, 1973, exactly 50 years ago, a military coup, led by Augusto Pinochet, overthrew President Salvador Allende and his Government of Popular Unity, took power by force and imposed a brutal fascist dictatorship on the Chilean people.
A heinous act that communists, and certainly other democrats, have the responsibility and duty to mark.
Not letting fall into oblivion the brutal wave of violence that characterised the coup and horrified the Chilean people and the world.
Rally of the 47th. Avante Festival!
3 September 2023
From here I salute the thousands who built, promoted and those who ensure the functioning of this great Festival, I salute the youth and JCP who make this remarkable collective construction, and rightly so, their Festival.
I salute all the visitors, those who are always there, those who have returned and those who are here for the first time.
Here you are at home and know that tomorrow we will be by your side, in different expressions of life, in the difficulties, in the dream, in the joy, in the fair struggles that we will carry out.
Yes to Peace! For a world free of nuclear weapons!
8 August 2023
August 6, 1945 is a date that progressive and peace-loving forces around the world signal, so that the memory of the monstrous crime, which was the launching of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima ( and three days later on Nagasaki), is not forgotten and learn from that tragedy, which caused thousands of deaths and suffering that lasts until today, lessons for the fight against militarism and war and for nuclear disarmament.
TAP does not need to be privatised, it needs to be valued and managed to serve the interests of the Country
18 July 2023
The book that we present here today is, and as its name implies, PCP’s contribution not only for resisting the privatisation of TAP, but also a clear denunciation of the tragedy of privatisations in Portugal.
A tragedy sustained for years and years by a brutal ideological campaign aimed at public companies, seeking to convince the workers and the Portuguese people that what was theirs, built with their effort and work, should be delivered into the hands of capital.
«The solidarity that we can express to the Cuban people and their revolution will always be little»
15 July 2023
I'm sure we will hear the President of Cuba here, in this act of solidarity with the Cuban people, with their revolution, with their right to sovereignty, with their example, which is an act of solidarity. I would say that the solidarity we show to the Cuban people, to the revolution, will always be a small solidarity.
For the right to Housing. Lower mortgage payments and rents
11 July 2023
I would like to begin by underlining the timeliness of this initiative at a time when thousands and thousands of people are struggling to access or maintain housing.
A situation that rightly worries so many men and women living in our country.
It worries those who have a rented home and are faced with rent increases or risk eviction.
It worries those who have loans and see the mortgage payments rise to unaffordable values.
It worries the more than 70 thousand families who live without decent housing.
Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of June 30 and July 1
1 July 2023
The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on June 30 and July 1, evaluated the developments in the national situation, defined priorities for the intervention and reinforcement of the Party, for the intensification of the mass struggle, for the break with right-wing policies and for a patriotic and left-wing alternative.
I - National Situation
«Government propaganda does not pay rents, mortgages, does not put food on the table»
28 June 2023
We are here for yet another momentous day of a great day of struggle by Portuguese workers. A very fair struggle, very fair demands, struggling for what is a fundamental issue today, which is wages, rights, against precariousness, a struggle for their rights, their aspirations. But it is a struggle for the country too.
Restrictions on 5G: Portugal needs to diversify economic relations instead of letting itself be captured by interests that are not its own
22 June 2023
1. The PCP considers of enormous gravity the decision to exclude from 5G networks – for alleged security reasons –the technology of countries that are not part of NATO, the EU, or the OECD.
This decision, which goes even further than what was "demanded" of the country by the US and the EU (in an unacceptable exercise of external imposition), is directed against countries like Brazil, China and India, which are not only some of the largest world economies but also traditional partners, with whom Portugal has developed economic relations for a long time.
«We reject the assumption that the Interior is doomed. It is not and we do not accept that they doom it»
19 June 2023
Here we are holding our parliamentary conference in Serra da Estrela. Yet another opportunity to talk about the problems that the workers, the people and the country face, at the national level, but also in the districts of Castelo Branco and Guarda.
And, more than the problems, the solutions, in districts that have registered a sharp loss of population in recent years.