Posições Políticas

Hygiene, Safety and Health in work: a struggle always, a struggle today

The situation resulting from the COVID-19 epidemic raises, with greater vehemence, the need for safety and health at work and the services in this field.

Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of May 16, 2020

The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on May 16, 2020, discussed and analysed the fundamental features, developments and dangers of the current situation in the context of the epidemic outbreak and set down guidelines for the intervention and strengthening of the Party and the struggle for the patriotic and left-wing alternative.

Strengthen the National Health Service, guarantee the provision of care to all in the public service

When a major operation is underway led by the economic groups in the disease business, their political representatives and propagandists, including reactionary sectors that have always wanted the destruction of the National Health Service, it is a national imperative, in the name of the health of the Portuguese, to demand the strengthening of the NHS in order to fully guarantee the right to healthcare.

“Strengthen the NHS. Guarantee access to healthcare”

More than 40 years after the adoption of the law that created the National Health Service on September 15, 1979, the NHS today faces a gigantic operation led by private groups in the disease business, their political representatives and the usual propagandists that have done everything, over the years, to have these groups replace the public service in providing healthcare and thus see thousands of millions euros entering the coffers of their companies, public money that should be used to strengthen the NHS.

On the 72 years of Nakba, the PCP condemns the Israeli Government's illegal and annexationist plans

The PCP considers that the announced annexation by the Israeli coalition government of about one third of the Palestinian West Bank territory, illegally occupied by Israel since 1967, will represent, in reality, a criminal attack on the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to an independent and sovereign State.

Public transport. Strategic sector to ensure the right to mobility and territorial cohesion

A year has passed, last April 1st, since the cuts in the price of public transport passes, right in the phase when most of the population was in lockdown due to the measures to prevent and combat the epidemic. It was, as the PCP stressed at the time, a step of enormous significance for an important part of the population. Important for those who live and work in large metropolitan areas, due to the vast scope of the measure and of the significant reduction in mobility costs.

Fight the virus and defend the rights of the retirees, pensioners and elderly

The last few months have been marked by an exceptional situation, as a result of the outbreak of COVID -19 and the sanitary measures to prevent and fight it, in which the National Health Service and its professionals have played an irreplaceable role.

We have entered a new period of resuming life in the country, a path towards the normalisation of economic activity and the life of the Portuguese aware of the need to comply with the basic rules of health protection, individual and collective.

75th. Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi-Fascism

Today marks the 75th. anniversary of the Victory over Nazi-fascism. A date that has an even greater significance when it becomes necessary to defend the truth about what World War II was and what it represented, combat attempts to falsify History and learn from it so that such a tragedy never happens.
May 9, 1945, Victory Day, marks the defeat of Nazi-fascism and its brutal project of exploitation, oppression and world domination.

70th Anniversary of the trial of Alvaro Cunhal

Today, May 5th, we mark a particularly striking moment in the life and history of the Portuguese Communist Party. Seventy years ago, during his trial in a fascist Court, Alvaro Cunhal delivered a memorable intervention where, with remarkable lucidity and courage, he proceeded to judge and condemn the fascist regime.

There are many and significant moments in the life and struggle of the Portuguese Communist Party that we will mark and celebrate during the centenary commemoration of PCP's heroic existence.

In the fight against the virus, defend the rights of children and parents

The consequences of the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic outbreak struck in full children and youth. We know that everything that happens in the lives of parents while workers, has a huge impact on children's lives: schedules, labour links, wages, are decisive for the organisation of family life. From the moment that all teaching establishments were closed, on March 13th, these consequences became gigantic.