National Issues
The international relations of the PCP. PCP and the communist and international revolutionary movement
29 November 2020
Comrades,
We are holding our 21th Congress under extraordinary circumstances which do not make it possible to have the presence of international guests, representatives of communist parties and other revolutionary and progressive forces, with which we have ties of friendship and struggle. This does not mean, however, that internationalist solidarity is not present and alive in our Congress.
Central Committee elected at the XXI Congress
29 November 2020
Elected with 602 votes in favor (98,5%), 3 votes against and 6 abstensions.
Adelino Nunes
58 years
Alexandra Pinto
25 years
Alexandre Araújo
48 years
Alma Rivera
29 years
The determining role of organization and intervention among workers and the claim struggle
29 November 2020
Comrades
The PCP is the vanguard of the working class and of all workers.
A role that we do not see as a title, granted by decree or self-proclaimed indulgence.
Our vanguard role results from the class nature of the PCP, as well as from its supreme objectives that correspond to the historical mission of the proletariat: to abolish class society and to create, in its place, a superior form of social and economic organization, socialism, towards communism.
International greetings and messages sent to the XXI Congress of the PCP
29 November 2020
People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
Communist Party of Australia
Communist Party of Armenia
Workers’ Party of Austria
Workers’ Party of Belgium
Communist Party of Belgium
Communist Party of Brazil
Workers’ Party (Brazil)
Communist Party of Britain
African Party of Independence of Cape Verde
Colombian Communist Party
Closing Speech XXI Congress of the PCP
29 November 2020
We are coming to end of the XXI Congress of the PCP. We have come a long way in the process of preparing it and holding it.
The crisis of capitalism, the imperialist offensive, the European Union and the struggle of workers and peoples
29 November 2020
In recent years the international situation has seriously worsened. International tension has increased, injustices and inequalities have deepened, reactionary and even fascist forces have advanced, and militarism and war remain the greatest danger facing humanity.
This evolution has deep roots in the exploitative, oppressive, aggressive and predatory nature of capitalism, and arises from the incessant deepening of its insoluble contradictions that converge to deepen a structural crisis manifest on various levels – the social to economic, from the environmental to political and cultural.
The struggle for the patriotic and left-wing alternative
29 November 2020
Comrades
As was mentioned in the draft of the Political Resolution of our Congress, “the reality with which our people and the country are confronted, highlights the struggle for the patriotic and left-wing political alternative - which includes a government capable of materialise it - as a core and decisive element to guarantee the necessary path, able to respond to the demands of development, progress and national sovereignty”.
The offensive against the PCP and the Democratic Regime
29 November 2020
Comrades,
The current intense anti-communist campaign has the PCP as its the most direct and evident target. This is not surprising. It is the direct consequence of what we are and what we will not cease to be.