PCP stands in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people
November 29, 2021
By deliberation of the UN General Assembly, today, November 29, marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
PCP's commitment to women's rights: Combating and preventing discrimination, inequalities and violence - Equality at work and in life
November 25, 2021
For the PCP, signalling the day for the end of violence against women is not the evocation of an event, but rather expressing its support for the struggle of women against labour exploitation, inequalities, discrimination and violence, anchored in a vast heritage of reflection and proposal , embodied in the European Parliament and in the Assembly of the Republic regarding the various expressions of violence against women at work, in the family and in society, aimed at the reinforcement of legislation, but also a path towards its eradication.
Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of November 21, 2021
November 21, 2021
The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on November 21, 2021, analysed the national situation and the necessary solutions for the country and pointed out measures for the Party's intervention, namely in the early elections for the Assembly of the Republic on January 30, 2022. For an alternative patriotic and left-wing policy, for solutions for the country
National Demonstration of CGTP-IN
November 20, 2021
«It is a great demonstration in an important day of struggle for the valorization of work and workers, particularly the valorization of wages as a fundamental issue, as a national emergency, along with other rights that have been called into question and that workers, using that experience and that famous phrase that "the rights are defended by exercising themselves", here they are exercising that right to proclaim the national demand for the valorization of wages, regulation of hours, the valorization of collective bargaining agreements.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary of the PCP, Matosinhos, Dinner with young people «A thousand struggles on the road to April»
«Young people connected to life who persist in the goal of transforming the dream into life»
13 November 2021
Most fraternal greetings from the leadership of the Portuguese Communist Party to the young communists and to the JCP. Greetings that we want to convey to the Portuguese youth, with their generosity in defending the right causes, their commitment and mobilisation for a better world.
A greeting to each one of you and, through you, to all the young communists who are not here today, but who, every day in their schools, in their workplaces, in their associations, in their multiple activities, assume the condition of activists for the rights of youth, their interests and aspirations.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary of the PCP, Lisbon, Session «Capitalism is not Green»
The PS and its Green Taxation hide the accountability of capitalism on environmental degradation
2 November 2021
A fraternal greeting from the leadership of our Party to the JCP, to the young communists and, through you, to the Portuguese youth.
A greeting that is all the more deserved as JCP, in the scope of its diversified activity in defence of the rights, interests and aspirations of the youth, has never failed to pay attention to and follow the struggle in defence of a healthy and ecologically balanced environment, embracing a wide range of initiatives and ensuring participation in the youth dynamics of environmental protection under the motto “Capitalism is not green”.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary of the PCP, Évora, Rally «PCP – Decisive force. By your side every day»
«What is required is to respond to problems and a demand for a better life!»
28 October 2021
A warm greeting from our Party’s rally to the communists of the Évora district and, through you, to all the people of Évora, people of struggle and work, who wrote many of its noblest pages in our history.
Here we are, in Évora, city of April, a World Heritage Site, by the hand and work of elected members of the PCP and CDU, a city symbol of municipal management based on Work, Honesty and Competence, whose index of development and response to citizens' needs make us proud.
by from the PCP Press Office
PCP condemns the coup in Sudan and solidarizes with the Sudanese people
27 October 2021
The Portuguese Communist Party condemns the military coup in Sudan and expresses its solidarity with the popular mobilisations that resist the putschist forces and their anti-democratic plans.
The PCP demands an end to the repression on the Sudanese people and democratic forces, as well as the immediate release of all detainees.
The PCP denounces imperialism’s interference in Sudan, which aims to ensure the control and exploitation of its natural resources and the insertion of this country in its strategy of domination of this important region on the African continent.
Statement by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary of the PCP, Lisbon, Press conference
On the meeting of the Central Committee of the PCP on October 24, 2021
25 October 2021
The country's situation and the problems it faces as a result of decades of right-wing policies and which the epidemic has worsened, demand a response and a solution that cannot be postponed. The essential question that is placed is to open perspectives for their overcoming.
This is where the energies and priorities of national policy must be focused. It is with this objective that the PCP has intervened.
Statement by PCP Central Committee
Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP of October 24, 2021
24 October 2021
The Central Committee of the PCP, meeting on October 24, 2021, analysed the situation of the country and the necessary response to the problems.
The country demands solutions
1. The country is faced with the consequences of decades of right-wing policies, which deepened injustices, inequalities and exploitation, as well as structural deficits in the productive, technological, energy and demographic fields.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary of the PCP, Alcácer do Sal, Rally «PCP – Decisive force. By your side every day”
Crisis is not having a salary or pension, housing or conditions to raise children
22 October 2021
Please allow me to take advantage of this meeting following the elections to welcome the valuable contribution of our candidates, militants and activists of the political forces that make up our Broad United Democratic Coalition (CDU) and the many democrats without party affiliation who, together, built the dynamic election campaign of the CDU!
Statement of the members of the PCP in the European Parliament
On the attack on the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and on the rights and sovereignty of the Portuguese people, invoking «the crisis of the rule of law in Poland»
22 October 2021
Statement by Duarte Alves, Deputado, Assembly of the Republic
We need measures to counter increases in fuel price
19 October 2021
The successive increases in fuel prices are a matter of great concern for most of the Portuguese and, due to the impacts they have on the entire economy, call into question the need for recovery considering the situation that the country is still facing.
The PCP considers it is essential to take urgent measures to counter these price increases, combining the fight against price speculation with fiscal measures.
Speech by Jerónimo de Sousa, General Secretary of the PCP, Porto, Rally «PCP – Decisive force. By your side, every day»
«We could ask: how do the answers that the workers and the people demand contribute to the alleged crisis?»
16 October 2021
Greetings to all of you and through you to the workers and people of Porto and this whole Region.
Greetings also and our appreciation to all our friends of the Ecologist Party «The Greens», of the Democratic Intervention, to the thousands of independents and activists of the CDU who were side by side with us in the recent electoral combat for Local Government which we fought together, creating a great campaign of contact with the populations.