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XXII Congresso do PCP – Almada  – 13, 14, 15 Dezembro 2024 Força de Abril. Tomar a iniciativa, com os trabalhadores e o povo. Democracia e Socialismo. More
12 e 13 de November de 2022 – Pavilhão do Alto do Moinho, Seixal – Tomar a iniciativa, reforçar o Partido, responder às novas exigências
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Workers’ living conditions: the labour package, wages and rights

Workers’ living conditions: the labour package, wages and rights

The life of the workers, the reality of the Country, and the ongoing attack on their rights through the Labour package: this is the theme of the parliamentary question we are putting to the Government today.  A process that takes place against a backdrop of growing hardship for the general public, who are facing rising prices that threaten to persist and worsen, increasing difficulties in accessing public services, particularly healthcare, and difficulties in accessing housing due to speculation encouraged by the Government. 

15 Reasons to General Strike

General Strike - June 3, 2026

15 Reasons to General Strike

They say labour laws are outdated and need to be "more flexible", thinking of young people. They say it's not worth fighting. They raise prices; they deregulate working hours; they don't even want to hear about increasing wages and pensions; they never stop profiting from the war and from your work. They are the economic groups. For you, who live out of your work, there is no shortage of reasons to say enough is enough, to join the General Strike on June 3. It is necessary to defeat this Labour Package as a whole and each of its measures.

A Call for the General Strike

A Call for the General Strike

The Government, employers, Chega and the Liberal Initiative thought they could increase precariousness, further deregulate working hours, further oppress the lives of working people, dismiss without just cause, and that everyone would simply accept this as normal.

The PCP condemns Israel’s aggressions on humanitarian aid workers heading for the Gaza Strip and reaffirms its solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle

The PCP condemns Israel’s aggressions on humanitarian aid workers heading for the Gaza Strip and reaffirms its solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle

The PCP strongly condemns the seizure by Israeli military forces of vessels belonging to the international flotillas of solidarity with Palestine, which took place in international waters, as well as the detention of their crew members and activists, among which Portuguese citizen, who were subjected to aggressions, ill-treatment and degrading treatment by Israeli security forces and political officials.

The PCP rejects and condemns the latest US manoeuvre against Cuba

20 May 2026

The alleged indictment made public today by the US Department of Justice against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz sparks the strongest possible rejection and condemnation. This is yet another shameful manoeuvre promoted by the Trump Administration, which seeks to provide a pretext for the escalation of US aggression and threats against Cuba, constituting an affront to the principles of the UN Charter and international law.

The PCP proposes a committee of inquiry to establish responsibility for supporting US and Israeli aggression

15 May 2026

The Portuguese Government’s position of vassalage towards the United States of America and Israel is a disgrace to the Country. They are abdicating national sovereignty and independence to align themselves shamelessly with those who unabashedly flout the principles of the United Nations Charter and international law, with those who repress peoples fighting for their self-determination and the right to decide sovereignly on their future and that of their Country, with those who promote confrontation and war.

Your war serves the arms industry, the profits of GALP, SONAE, Jerónimo Martins and the banks, but not the people

15 May 2026

Portugal, as defined by the Constitution of the Republic, can only act as an uncompromising defender of international law, a builder of peace, and an advocate for the political resolution of conflicts. After two world wars and millions of deaths, it is easy to conclude that war must be stopped and that everything must be done to ensure it never returns. It is true that Portugal alone cannot impose peace. But it can and must, together with other countries, break away from the chorus of the madness of war and the arms race.

Condemnation of the escalation of aggression and threats by the US against Cuba and a demand for respect for the sovereignty and rights of the Cuban people

The Assembly of the Republic cannot remain indifferent to the US’s inhumane blockade of Cuba

8 May 2026

The Assembly of the Republic cannot remain indifferent to the escalation of the blockade and the threats of military aggression made by the US President against Cuba, a sovereign nation with which Portugal has long-standing diplomatic and friendly relations. An inhumane and criminal blockade and unacceptable threats which, in flagrant violation of the principles of the UN Charter and international law, undermine the sovereignty and rights of the Cuban people.

There is no patch up to a proposal that increases exploitation

6 May 2026

On May Day, Labour Day, workers took to the streets all over the Country in a highly expressive and determined show of strength. They made it abundantly clear that they reject the labour reforms proposed by the Government and employers, refusing to accept any rollbacks or the removal of their rights. They demanded better wages to counter the rising cost of living. They demanded the decent life to which they and their families are entitled.

May 1st 2026 demonstrations

May 1st 2026 demonstrations

1 May 2026

Popular celebrations of the 52nd anniversary of the April Revolution.

Popular celebrations of the 52nd anniversary of the April Revolution

25 April 2026

Cuba will win, thanks to the courage and dignity of the Cuban people and the solidarity of the peoples of the world

19 April 2026

Cuba will win, thanks to the courage and dignity of the Cuban people and the solidarity of the peoples of the world I would like to thank for the honourable invitation extended to the Portuguese Communist Party to participate in this important Conference, under the theme ‘Cuba, the Revolution and the World’, jointly organised by the Portugal-Cuba Friendship Association and other organisations and personalities who support the solidarity movement with Cuba.

CGPT-IN’s National Demonstration against the Labour Package

Thousands of workers take to the streets against the Labour Package

17 April 2026

A flood of people filled the streets of Lisbon today, from Saldanha to the Assembly of the Republic, in a powerful show of strength by those who work and will not accept setbacks. Whilst they gather in offices to hammer out the details of further exploitation, the workers, called by the CGTP-IN, take to the streets to say, “enough is enough”. Enough of poverty wages. Enough of job precariousness. Enough of measures such as the “hour bank” that steal time and rights.

On the elections in Hungary

14 April 2026

The result of the Hungarian elections is marked by the defeat of Fidesz – the political force that has ruled the country for the past 16 years – and by the victory of Tisza – the party led by Péter Magyar, who until recently was a member of the party led by Viktor Orbán –, now with only right-wing and far-right forces represented in Parliament, which suggests the continuation of policies contrary to the interests of the workers and the Hungarian people.

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Dossier

Massive Rally - 6 Mar. 2022

Campo Pequeno, Lisbon

1921-2021 - Centenary of the PCP

Freedom, Democracy, Socialism - The future has a Party

XXI Congress of the PCP

Organise, Struggle, Advance - Democracy and Socialism

For a Europe of the workers and the peoples

Joint Appeal for the 2019 elections to the European Parliament

Centennial of the October Revolution

Socialism, necessary today and for the future

Banking system, the debt and the Euro

Some of the main constraints to the development of the country

Articles on International Issues

«Human Rights»

26 March 2020

Translated "Avante!"article by Luis Carapinha, Member of the International Department
Imagem de Destaque:

«Capitalism's depeceptions»

19 March 2020

Translated "Avante!"article by Pedro Guerreiro, Member of the Secretariat of the CC and Responsible of the International Department
Imagem de Destaque:

«Another virus»

12 March 2020

Translated "Avante!"article by Jorge Cadima, Member of the International Department
Imagem de Destaque:

«Idlib, the Battle for truth»

5 March 2020

Translated "Avante!"article by Ângelo Alves, Member of the PCP Political Committee
Imagem de Destaque:

«New War?»

22 July 2019

Translated "Avante!"article by Jorge Cadima, Member of the International Department
Imagem de Destaque:

«Farcical Mystification»

18 July 2019

Translated "Avante!"article by Pedro Guerreiro, Member of the Secretariat of the CC and Responsible of the International Department
Imagem de Destaque:

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International Meetings of Communist and Workers Parties

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Lisbon, Portugal - 10 to 12 November 2006

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