Posições Políticas
Guarantee rapid vaccination for all
13 April 2021
I would like to begin by thanking you for having accepted our invitation for this hearing, whose theme " Guarantee rapid vaccination for all" is very topical and has merited attention and a permanent intervention by the PCP.
The epidemic outbreak that the country faces poses a very significant set of health, economic and social problems of unquestionable seriousness that must be faced with responsibility and determination.
Buy trains, increase the offer of transport and rebuild the productive apparatus
6 April 2021
The starting point today is the national railway sector, its strategic character and the need to make the necessary investments for its modernisation and expansion. But we are here to talk about many more things, in concrete, to use this example as an illustration of the much that needs to change in Portugal if we want to tread the path of development and progress.
On the 45th anniversary of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic
2 April 2021
On this April 2nd, we commemorate 45 years since the approval of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, one of the most beautiful and progressive constitutional texts in the world. This Fundamental Law resulting from the Revolution of April 25, 1974, embodied the principles and values of the freedom then achieved, corresponding to the deepest desires of the Portuguese people, and enshrined the revolutionary transformations carried out during the revolutionary process.
The PCP and the 25th of April
30 March 2021
This year we celebrate the April Revolution, at a time when we also celebrate the Centenary of our Party and this week, on Friday, 45 years of the adoption of the current Constitution of the Portuguese Republic.
A thousand struggles on the path of April
28 March 2021
Please receive a strong and warm greeting from the leadership of the PCP in this initiative of the Portuguese Communist Youth (JCP).
An embrace to each one of you, who is here, showing that, with all due care, it is possible to carry on our life in safety, extended as well to all Portuguese youth on this National Youth Day.
This is your day. And our, your Party, the Portuguese Communist Party, which has been the Party of the Youth since its founding a hundred years ago, is here to celebrate it with you.
Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of March 21 and 22, 2021
22 March 2021
The Central Committee of the PCP stressed the importance and significance of the celebration of the Party's Centenary, analysed aspects of the development of the international situation, assessed the national situation and the necessary responses, the political framework and the struggle for the political alternative, and outlined the main lines of intervention of the Party, highlighting the response to the national situation, the development of the mass struggle and the strengthening of the Party.
Music, musicians and the epidemic: consequences and solutions
16 March 2021
I would like to start by thanking you for having accepted our invitation to be here at this hearing whose theme “Music, musicians and the epidemic - consequences and solutions”, is part of a broader intervention by the PCP in the culture sector. A hearing that has two main aims: to acquaint you with the assessment that we make of the culture sector in this context of epidemic and our proposals, and to listen to your opinions and suggestions for us to consider them in our intervention.
PCP welcomes annulment of the sentences against Lula da Silva
9 March 2021
The PCP welcomes the annulment of the sentences passed against Lula da Silva, a decision that gives great joy to all those who defend freedom, justice and democracy.
A decision that confirms the clear political motivation of the Lava-Jato process and its inseparable articulation with the institutional coup carried out in Brazil with the illegitimate and scandalous removal of the elected President Dilma Rousseff, in 2016.
«Celebrating 100 years, here we are and here we remain, ready and determined to continue the struggle at the service of the people and the country»
6 March 2021
«We started all the acts of celebration of the Centenary of the Portuguese Communist Party, singing “The Internationale”, the Party anthem that is a stimulus to our struggle, by singing it in unison affirming our ideal, our dimension as an internationalist Party, which bears as its own the causes of the liberation and emancipation of the workers and peoples from all over the world. A way to express and also convey our sincere thanks to all the communist parties and other progressive forces around the world who sent us messages of their friendship and solidarity, saluting the 100 years of the PCP.»
Tribute to the heroes fallen in the struggle
2 March 2021
«In the long fascist night / they were bearers of the flame of freedom / and for freedom they died / in the Tarrafal Concentration Camp.»