Posições Políticas
On the public debt
3 December 2016
Imagine an indebted country, under unrelenting pressure, oversight and blackmail from the European institutions; a country with no monetary or exchange rate policies, and with less and less budget policy; a country where a good part of all essential or strategic companies, as well as the financial system, are controlled from abroad. That country may be formally independent, but it has extremely limited sovereignty.
Opening Speech – 20th PCP Congress
2 December 2016
"In a time of uncertainties, but also of hope, let us live up to the demands that we must face, basing ourselves in the present, but thinking about the future!"
On the demise of Fidel Castro
26 November 2016
On the demise of comrade Fidel Castro the Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party expresses its deep sorrow and conveys to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and through it to all the communists, the people of Cuba, to comrade Raúl Castro and the rest of Fidel's family, heartfelt condolences and solidarity of the Portuguese communists.
On the elections in the United States of America
9 November 2016
The elections for President, as well as for the Senate and House of Representatives, in the United States of America have displayed the profound problems, contradictions and inequalities which permeate that country's society, and which are expressions of the deepening structural crisis of capitalism that affects in particular the world's biggest imperialist power.
"Raising the awareness of workers and of our people about the meaning and achievements of the October Revolution"
7 November 2016
Contribution of the PCP at the 18th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
28 October 2016
Contribution of the Portuguese Communist Party at the 18th International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties - 28th to 30th October, 2016, Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam
On the Free Trade Agreement between EU and Canada (CETA)
22 October 2016
The PCP values the position of the regional government and parliament of Wallonia, Belgium, of rejecting the “Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement” (CETA), a position which under the Belgian Constitution prevents its signature by the Belgian federal government, thus blocking the process aimed at the signing of this free trade and services agreement between the European Union and Canada.
National Action "Employment rights, production and sovereignty - Patriotic and Left-wing Alternative”
30 September 2016
PCP launched on the past 29th, a National Action directed to the workers and people. This action will be accompanied by a poster and a national leaflet, and will carry out a set of initiatives among which a cycle of thematic debates addressing the issues of Social Security, Fiscal Justice, support for children and families, Precariousness, public investment and national production , and Housing.
Centennial of the October Revolution – Socialism, necessary today and for the future
17 September 2016
The year 2017 marks the centennial of the October 1917 Socialist Revolution. The October Revolution is the major event in the historical process of emancipation of the exploited, the oppressed, the workers and the peoples, a process which has been marked by important revolutionary events from the days of primitive society, through slavery, feudalism and capitalism.