Confidence and hope. These are the words I address to all of you, to all those who live here, to all those who work here, and to all those who went out all over the world in search of the better life that Portugal denied them. It is true. It is true that the month is too long for the wages to last. It is true that we face the drama of access to housing, access to healthcare, and a shortage of teachers. It is true that there is a lack of nurseries, care homes, low pensions and retirement benefits, and that often only overtime and double jobs make it possible to get by.

The great and expressive scale of today’s General Strike is an enormous statement of the workers’ strength and unity, and a powerful expression of rejection of a labour package [of laws] at the service of capital, which was put forth by the PSD/CDS Government and which is supported by Chega and Inicativa Liberal [parties].

The PCP strongly condemns the actions carried out by a self-proclaimed “military high command” that have undermined the constitutional order of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and the functioning of its institutions, preventing the announcement of the results of the legislative and presidential elections scheduled for 27 November, invading the campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Fernando Dias da Costa and seizing Domingos Simões Pereira, President of the People’s National Assembly of Guinea-Bissau and leader of the PAIGC, as well as other political leaders

The PCP condemns the serious and unacceptable warmongering actions and threats of military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela by the Trump administration which, under false pretexts, aim to impose the domination and plundering of this country's huge resources by US imperialism