National Issues
Constitution of the Portuguese Republic: comply the enshrined rights and project
17 November 2022
What is relevant and decisive about the Constitution is its compliance. The constitutional amendment projects presented by PSD, IL and Chega prove that the constitutional amendment process is determined by the attack on the democratic regime and fundamental rights and by the objective of giving constitutional cover to right-wing policies, mutilating and subverting the Constitution.
Closing of the National Conference of the PCP
13 November 2022
We are halfway through the National Conference.
Following the preparatory phase and and the conclusions of the XXI Congress, reaffirming the communist identity, the class nature, objectives and principles, we involved the Party, we deepened the reflection, we built solutions, while at the same time that we encouraged and mobilised for the struggle, a struggle that was present here and that we salute.
On the election of Paulo Raimundo as General Secretary of the PCP
12 November 2022
The most important body of the PCP is its Congress, which is made up of delegates elected from all Party organisations, in a very participatory and broad process, in which tens of thousands of militants discuss the analyses and guidelines for a period of four years. Each delegate represents his organisation and takes its proposals to the Congress.
Opening of the National Conference of the PCP
12 November 2022
Please allow me to begin by conveying warmest greetings to all of you and to the whole great party collective, the main builder and guarantor of the Party that we have and that we are.
We are here to begin the proceedings of our National Conference. The intense preparatory work is behind, involving thousands of militants and practically all Party bodies, in hundreds of meetings, of elections and debates held throughout the country.
More strength to the workers – achieve rights, transform dreams into life
10 November 2022
Under the motto "More strength to the workers – achieve rights, transform dreams into life" a topical issue in the days we live and so defining in the experiences and struggles of the people of this land that we will look at the past and future of this fight through the contribution of the experienced political leader with an impressive intervention in contemporary life that was Álvaro Cunhal.
On the PCP’s Central Committee meeting of November 5, 2022
6 November 2022
The Central Committee assessed the national situation and analysed the preparatory work for the PCP’s National Conference “Taking the initiative, strengthening the Party, responding to new demands” to be held on November 12 and 13.
As regards the Country, we have to stress the worrying evolution of its economic and social situation and the worsening of its main problems.
Paulo Raimundo - Biography
5 November 2022
Biography
Paulo Raimundo is 46 years old, married and has three children.
He is the son of workers who come from the municipality of Beja. He was born in Cascais, the municipality where his parents worked at the time, as employees of Estoril Football Club, where they stayed in the club’s facilities. He lived in Setúbal from the age of 3, where his parents settled and worked.
«The demonstrations in Lisbon and Porto are already the largest mobilisation of the last two years»
15 October 2022
This demonstration here in Lisbon, like the one in Porto, already represents the largest mobilisation of the last two years and shows that the workers do not accept the deterioration of wages, the deterioration of pensions, the attack on public services, while at the same time there is an amassing of billions of euros in the profits of economic groups, multinationals, with dividends that largely leave the country. And just as the workers do not accept it, the PCP also does not accept this deterioration of the living conditions, wages, pensions and public services.