Posições Políticas
The critical situation of MSMEs and the necessary response to defend incomes and the national economy
4 April 2020
1 - It is necessary to continue to respond to the serious public health problem that the country faces, namely with preventive measures and the enlargement of the capacity of response by the National Health Service. But it is also urgent to respond to the fast deterioration of the economic and social situation, namely the set of problems that are today posed to thousands of micro, small and medium-size entrepreneurs who constitute more than 99% of the Portuguese economic fabric.
Proposals for strengthening the protection of rights and addressing the epidemic outbreak
31 March 2020
The present situation requires significant measures to oppose the epidemic outbreak, but it also calls for measures aimed at defending the rights and living conditions of workers and the people.
«The defence of our people demands intensifying the struggle for food sovereignty»
30 March 2020
The first word of the PCP is for the farmers, fishermen and workers.
For all those who persistently continue to sow seeds on the soil, plant their crops, fertilize, till, prune, dig, feed and care for their animals, for all agricultural workers, including the migrants who are so often under subhuman conditions and that the big landowners and middlemen leave to their fate on the first occasion, and those who continue to go to the sea, to ensure the supply of our markets and the food of the Portuguese people.
PCP condemns the new putschist provocation by the US against Venezuela
27 March 2020
The insulting charges launched by the Trump Administration against President Nicolás Maduro, leaders and senior officials of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, using slanderously alleged issues linked to drug trafficking, constitute a new ignoble act that, while revealing the failure of previous destabilising operations, is part of the policy of interference and aggression which, in violation of the most elementary riles of international law, aimed at overthrowing the legitimate Venezuelan government.
«Fight the epidemic outbreak, fight the law of the jungle, defend and protect workers' rights»
23 March 2020
The current epidemic outbreak has to be tackled, prevented and fought with determination, mobilizing the means and resources essential to defend health and life. But it cannot be used and instrumentalized, taking advantage of legitimate concerns, to serve as a pretext for the worsening of exploitation and for an attack on workers' rights.
The Covid-19 epidemic – The unavoidable response to the economic and social emergency
22 March 2020
1 – The situation that has emerged in Portugal as a result of the Covid – 19 outbreak requires as a first priority the adoption of prevention measures and propping up the National Health System’s ability to address the spread of the epidemic and to provide clinical responses to the crisis.
Defend unwaveringly the interests of the people and the country - Reject the impositions and constraints of the European Union
21 March 2020
1. The needs to respond to the epidemic outbreak of COVID-19, namely with regard to the urgent strengthening of the capacity of the National Health Service and measures to defend economic activities, employment and income of workers, their labour rights, demand with more pressing urgency that the country face and resolutely reject the constraints resulting from submission to the impositions of the European Union, which are not only at the root of the problems that the people and the country face, but hinder their resolution.
«You can count on the PCP to resist difficulties and to defend rights»
20 March 2020
I would like to share with you this feeling of unease that assails us in the face of the situation we are experiencing.
But also to affirm and share the hope that we will overcome the difficulties and dangers that we face, where words have to give way to action, preventive measures and clinical treatment that safeguard life, health and rights.
They ask us for how long. We are sure of only one thing: we will overcome this difficult moment.
On the measures decided by the Government in the application of the State of Emergency
19 March 2020
1- The country’s situation, in view of the developments of the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak, requires continued compliance with the guidelines recommended by Health authorities and which have deserved the widespread and exemplary understanding and acceptance by the Portuguese people, as well as measures to strengthen the response capacity of the National Health Service.
The COVID-19 epidemic outbreak - Short-term and medium-term repercussions, and the responses and policies that must be adopted to address them
17 March 2020
1. The COVID-19 epidemic outbreak confronting the country and the world naturally requires, as a priority, an appropriate set of prevention procedures, including health measures that must be strengthened. Public health services play a crucial role, accompanied at the same time by essential measures to enable the clinical response. The National Health Service must be strengthened, at all levels.