National demonstration "Better wages, decent pensions and high-quality public services! Against the rising cost of living!", CGTP-IN

National demonstration "Better wages, decent pensions and high-quality public services! Against the rising cost of living!", CGTP-IN

17 October 2026

Tens of thousands of workers, young people and pensioners took part in the demonstrations organised by the CGTP-IN, filling the streets of Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra and Funchal and giving voice to their outrage at injustices and their demand for better wages, decent pensions and high-quality public services. While those who work struggle to pay their rent, mortgage payments and monthly shopping bills, the large economic groups are raking in millions in profits.

On Marco Rubio’s visit to Portugal

8 October 2026

The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is one of the main architects of the criminal policy of confrontation, aggression and war promoted by US imperialism, which undermines the sovereignty and rights of peoples and openly flouts the principles of the UN Charter and international law.

The developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence and the need for a sovereign national strategy on AI

7 October 2026

The growing impacts of the development and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which are inextricably linked to the social and political context in which they occur, can represent promising advances or, on the contrary, worrying setbacks. The PCP believes that Portugal needs a sovereign national strategy for AI, which will help to make the fullest possible use of the potentials opened up by its development whilst, at the same time, minimise the risks arising from its use. The PCP considers that the general objectives of this strategy should be:

On the elections in Brazil

5 October 2026

What is at stake in the Brazilian elections is the defence of democracy and Brazil’s sovereignty, the continuation and deepening of a path towards liberty, rights and development, a path championed by Lula da Silva and Brazil’s democratic and progressive forces, or the imposition of a reactionary, putschist, fascistic agenda, subservient to and supported by US imperialism, spearheaded by Flávio Bolsonaro and the profoundly anti-democratic and anti-patriotic interests he represents.

Rally of the 50th. Avante! Festival

Rally of the 50th. Avante! Festival

9 September 2026

To all of you, builders of this magnificent collective endeavour, I extend my warmest greetings. I salute everyone: those who build and ensure the holding of the Festival, the Party militants, and the thousands upon thousands who, whilst not party members, make this Festival their home. I salute the artists, the sportspeople and all those who have helped create and take part in the Festival’s magnificent programme.

NATO Summit – A summit of arms and war

13 July 2026

1. Rejecting the necessary and urgent path towards promoting peace, collective security and cooperation, namely in Europe, the NATO Summit, held in Ankara, Turkey, persists with its warmongering policy, confirming that it is the US and its allies who bear the first and main responsibility for the unbridled rise in military spending, the serious arms race, and the instigation of confrontation, militarism and war, with all the consequences and risks they entail for the peoples of the world.

Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of June 27 and 28, 2026

28 June 2026

The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on June 27 and 28, 2026, analysed the country’s political and social situation, valued the workers’ struggle and the defeat of the Labour Package, evaluated developments in the international situation, and outlined the Party’s immediate course of action. It also assessed the implementation of the resolution on the Party and the strengthening of its organisation and activities.  

March «Struggle, path to victory»

Luta, caminho da Vitória

22 June 2026

What an important journey we are embarking on, and we have more than enough reasons for it to be so. Here is the victory march, here is the celebration of work, of resistance, of struggle. We said: we will not give up, the package is going to fall, and the package fell. A great victory for the workers. The Labour Package has been defeated.

A great victory of the workers in Portugal! The workers’ struggle has defeated the Labour Package in the workplaces, in the streets and in Parliament!

22 June 2026

The workers in Portugal have achieved, through their struggle, a great victory in defending their labour and trade union rights, by defeating the Labour Package [of legislation] put forth by the PSD/CDS Government and which was supported by the bosses’ confederations. This is a great victory, which shows the decisive strength of the workers’ organization, struggle and unity.

MPs and political parties will have to decide: Are they on the side of the workers or on the side of the Government’s labour package?

22 June 2026

Now is the moment of truth, every MP and every party will have to decide whether to vote against or in favour of even greater precariousness, even greater deregulation of working hours and people’s lives, even greater pressure on wages, the liberalisation of dismissals, or unpaid overtime through the “hour bank” scheme.