On the use of the Lajes Base to supply weapons to Israel

3 October 2025

The PCP considers it intolerable that F35 aircraft sold by the US to Israel have used the Lajes Base as a stopover. The PCP also notes the argument put forward by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, casting responsibility on the Ministry of Defence, thus highlighting the Portuguese Government's lack of clear guidance on the Israeli regime and associating Portugal with the supply of weapons for its genocidal policy, of occupation and colonisation.

Members of the European Parliament sign letter denouncing the US intention to prevent Palestinian representatives from participating in the UN General Assembly Session

2 September 2025

João Oliveira, Member of the European Parliament for the PCP, has issued an open letter for other MEPs to sign, urging the European Union institutions to take effective measures to ensure access and full participation of representatives of the Palestinian people in the proceedings of the United Nations General Assembly, which will place this month in New York.

On the Recognition of the State of Palestine by the Portuguese Government

21 September 2025

The Recognition of the State of Palestine by the Portuguese Government is a measure that was long overdue and should have been taken long ago. It is a measure that has been repeatedly proposed by the PCP for many years, particularly in the Assembly of the Republic, and which was systematically rejected by successive PSD/CDS and PS governments, under the cover ofvarious subterfuges to prevent Portugal from adopting a decision that it had the sovereign right to take.

Rally of the Avante! Festival 2025

Rally at the 49th. Avante! Festival

7 September 2025

To all the visitors, to those who never miss a Festival, to the many who have come for the first time, to those who have returned, welcome. A big greeting to each and every one of you, workers in this collective construction that is the Avante! Festival. Allow me to greet the artists, the sportspeople, all those who make the Festival happen and keep it running. A special greeting to the youth and the Portuguese Communist Youth, who are the living expression of this Festival that they have made their own.

On the worsening situation in Palestine and in the Middle East

25 August 2025

The PCP strongly condemns Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people, including its stated goal of colonising the Gaza Strip, and calls on the Portuguese Government to take a clear stance of condemnation of this new escalation and to develop effective initiatives aimed at putting an immediate end to the genocide of the Palestinian people.

PCP denounces provocative and militaristic escalation by the US in Latin America

22 August 2025

The PCP denounces and repudiates the provocative and aggressive actions by the Trump Administration currently underway in Latin America, namely in the Caribbean Sea, falsely invoking the fight against drug trafficking, and warns of the serious threat posed by the growth of militarism and interventionism by US imperialism to the sovereignty and rights of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples and to peace and security in the region.

No to the labour package: confront and defeat the attack on workers

8 August 2025

The PSD/CDS government, with the support of CH and IL and made viable by the PS, is pursuing a policy at the service of big capital, heightening exploitation, dismantling public services, attacking the democratic system and jeopardising national sovereignty. The government has announced a labour package that is a declaration of war on workers. The government, those who favour its policies and big capital are there with their goals, which have to be confronted and can be defeated.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the urgency of the struggle for peace

6 August 2025

This is the 80th. anniversary of the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. Bombings that instantly caused around 200,000 deaths and left an unspeakable trail of destruction and suffering. A heinous crime against Humanity that absolutely nothing can justify, but which the US tried to excuse with the false argument of defeating Japan, when Japan was already militarily defeated and when in fact it was a demonstration of US military power and its aim of imposing US hegemony on the world.

The Portuguese government must respect Sahrawi people's right to self-determination

4 August 2025

The PCP rejects the Portuguese government's position of disrespecting the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people, which is enshrined in international law, in particular in repeated United Nations resolutions. The Portuguese government's alignment with the position of the Kingdom of Morocco represents support for the continuation of Morocco's illegal occupation of territories in Western Sahara, in direct violation of international law.

For an immediate recognition of the State of Palestine and an end to Israel's crimes

1 August 2025

In view of the government's announcement of contacts about a possible recognition of the State of Palestine, deferring a possible decision to September, the PCP reiterates that such a decision is urgent and should have already been implemented, as the PCP has repeatedly proposed in Parliament. The announcement that has now been made by the Prime Minister, is inseparable from the pressure of public opinion and the broad movement of solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of the ongoing crimes perpetrated by the State of Israel.