Posições Políticas
Not a single right less. Confidence and struggle for a better life
20 June 2020
The PCP has launched a campaign to valorise work and workers - «No to exploitation» - with dozens of initiatives in all regions of the country, as we are doing here in Portel.
We are where we have always been, with the workers and the people, listening to their problems, denouncing violations of their rights, making proposals to respond to their claims and aspirations.
There were some who thought they could and tried to silence us or reduce our activity.
The PCP, organisation, unity and struggle of the workers
20 June 2020
No other theme deserved to open the cycle of debates in the context of the celebrations of the Centennial of our Party with more symbolic meaning and at the same time more central, vital and urgent in these times, than the one that brought us here: “The PCP, organisation, unity and struggle of the workers”.
A theme for a debate that meets the first feature of PCP's identity - its class nature, as a Party of the working class and of all workers and to which it has remained faithful in defining its guideline and its action and practical intervention in these hundred years of its existence.
Stop the deterioration of living and working conditions, fulfil women's rights
14 June 2020
1. The PCP considers it necessary to assess the impact of the epidemic outbreak, in its various dimensions, on the situation of women, on the relationship between their professional activity and family life, and take measures to stop the deterioration of living and working conditions and enforce their rights.
In the last three months there has been an increase in inequalities, discrimination and violence that affect most women.
The virus, exploitation and poverty
13 June 2020
We have long faced and fought, in Portugal, against the serious scourge of poverty and social inequalities.
At its root is a virus, older than the dangerous and deadly virus of Covid-19 - the virus of exploitation and the policies that feed it.
It is a scourge that has taken on and takes on enormous gravity, both for its size and for its persistence in our country.
Right to housing, a constitutional imperative
12 June 2020
The right to adequate housing for all is an imperative and a right enshrined in article 65 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic.
A right however, which except during the period of great popular mobilisation soon after 25th. April did not hold the centrality that the Constitution gives it as a universal right by successive governments throughout the 46 years of democracy.
Teleworking: illusions; fragilization of workers; guarantee of rights
9 June 2020
The scientific and technological development is a reality that affects all levels of life and society, and also of work. It can serve workers or, in the context of its appropriation by capital, be put to serve the objective of worsening exploitation and attacking workers' rights.
Support MSMEs, defend national economy
8 June 2020
Only those who are not familiar with the national reality will be surprised by the situation of great distress that many thousands of small entrepreneurs and their families are going through. The epidemic outbreak that affects the country and the world has brought to light even more, and brutally, the many weaknesses and problems that affect the Portuguese business fabric.
Not a single right less. Confidence and struggle for a better life
7 June 2020
First of all, on behalf of the Central Committee, please allow me to greet our whole Party, its organisations, all the militants who in companies, in workplaces, in cities, towns and villages, in class-oriented and associative movements, in the various institutions, in Local and Regional Government, in the Assembly of the Republic and in the European Parliament, who, in these difficult times of epidemic outbreak, wherever necessary, fulfil their role and our duty to uphold the interests of the workers and people.
Defend Public School so that no student is harmed
30 May 2020
Please accept a warm greeting for your initiative.
This greeting is all the more justified, since it is held in a context of special difficulties for the action and for the struggle that young communists, during these weeks, were able to face, never ceasing to be, with digital means or in person, where the youth are, accompanying their problems and aspirations, and assuming the demand for the necessary answers.
European Commission proposals do not respond to the country's needs
29 May 2020
The proposals presented by the European Commission, concerning the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027 and the so-called "recovery fund", will still be subject to debate and approval by the European Council and the European Parliament.