Rally of the 50th. Avante! Festival

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

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

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.

«Struggle, path to victory»

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.

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.