National Issues
TAP does not need to be privatised, it needs to be valued and managed to serve the interests of the Country
18 July 2023
The book that we present here today is, and as its name implies, PCP’s contribution not only for resisting the privatisation of TAP, but also a clear denunciation of the tragedy of privatisations in Portugal.
A tragedy sustained for years and years by a brutal ideological campaign aimed at public companies, seeking to convince the workers and the Portuguese people that what was theirs, built with their effort and work, should be delivered into the hands of capital.
Sandra Pereira at the People's Summit
17 July 2023
Sandra Pereira, member of the PCP in the European Parliament, participates in the People's Summit, taking place on the Campus of the ULB – Free University of Brussels, on July 17 and 18.
The PCP’s MEP will participate in the panel on “New forms of dirty war: coups, lawfare, disinformation, sanctions and economic war”, which will take place on July 18, in Auditorium C of the ULB Campus.
Solidarity with the Venezuelan people’s determination
13 July 2023
This resolution on Venezuela insists on the manipulation and concealment of facts and on buttressing US’s interventionist strategy.
For more than two decades, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been the target of US interference and aggression, examples of which are the orchestration of coups d'état, the creation of puppet 'institutions', the continuing campaign of disinformation or the imposition of a cruel economic blockade, aimed at affecting the rights and living conditions of the Venezuelan people.
We demand an immediate end to Israel's violence against the Palestinian people
12 July 2023
We are debating this resolution in the context of Israel's increasingly brutal policy of aggression against the Palestinian people.
An example of this is the recent attack on the Jenin refugee camp - 12 dead, over 100 injured, including children, the expulsion of hundreds of families from their homes.
We condemn and demand an immediate end to Israel's violence against the Palestinian people.
For the right to Housing. Lower mortgage payments and rents
11 July 2023
I would like to begin by underlining the timeliness of this initiative at a time when thousands and thousands of people are struggling to access or maintain housing.
A situation that rightly worries so many men and women living in our country.
It worries those who have a rented home and are faced with rent increases or risk eviction.
It worries those who have loans and see the mortgage payments rise to unaffordable values.
It worries the more than 70 thousand families who live without decent housing.
Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of June 30 and July 1
1 July 2023
The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on June 30 and July 1, evaluated the developments in the national situation, defined priorities for the intervention and reinforcement of the Party, for the intensification of the mass struggle, for the break with right-wing policies and for a patriotic and left-wing alternative.
I - National Situation
Consecutive increase in reference interest rates declared by the ECB and its impacts on workers and families
30 June 2023
Following the decision by the European Central Bank (ECB) to increase the reference interest rate to 4%, after eight consecutive increases, anticipating a new increase in July, the PC´s MPs in the European Parliament took the initiative to promote a letter signed by several MPs from different Member States and political groups, addressed to the European Council, the European Commission and the European Central Bank.
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Hon. President of the European Council, Charles Michel
«Government propaganda does not pay rents, mortgages, does not put food on the table»
28 June 2023
We are here for yet another momentous day of a great day of struggle by Portuguese workers. A very fair struggle, very fair demands, struggling for what is a fundamental issue today, which is wages, rights, against precariousness, a struggle for their rights, their aspirations. But it is a struggle for the country too.
Restrictions on 5G: Portugal needs to diversify economic relations instead of letting itself be captured by interests that are not its own
22 June 2023
1. The PCP considers of enormous gravity the decision to exclude from 5G networks – for alleged security reasons –the technology of countries that are not part of NATO, the EU, or the OECD.
This decision, which goes even further than what was "demanded" of the country by the US and the EU (in an unacceptable exercise of external imposition), is directed against countries like Brazil, China and India, which are not only some of the largest world economies but also traditional partners, with whom Portugal has developed economic relations for a long time.
«We reject the assumption that the Interior is doomed. It is not and we do not accept that they doom it»
19 June 2023
Here we are holding our parliamentary conference in Serra da Estrela. Yet another opportunity to talk about the problems that the workers, the people and the country face, at the national level, but also in the districts of Castelo Branco and Guarda.
And, more than the problems, the solutions, in districts that have registered a sharp loss of population in recent years.