National Issues
Right to housing, a constitutional imperative
12 June 2020
The right to adequate housing for all is an imperative and a right enshrined in article 65 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic.
A right however, which except during the period of great popular mobilisation soon after 25th. April did not hold the centrality that the Constitution gives it as a universal right by successive governments throughout the 46 years of democracy.
Teleworking: illusions; fragilization of workers; guarantee of rights
9 June 2020
The scientific and technological development is a reality that affects all levels of life and society, and also of work. It can serve workers or, in the context of its appropriation by capital, be put to serve the objective of worsening exploitation and attacking workers' rights.
Defend workers' rights, wages and income and guarantee their social protection
9 June 2020
Exceptional times demand exceptional measures and urgent responses to defend workers' rights, wages and income and guarantee their social protection.
Over the past 3 months we have had clear examples of how the virus has been used as an excuse for brutal trampling of labour rights:
• Wild dismissals of thousands of workers; today there are over 100,000 unemployed registered workers;
• Placing workers on forced vacations and imposing long working hours without paying overtime;
• Unilateral change in working hours;
• Cuts in wages and other incomes;
Support MSMEs, defend national economy
8 June 2020
Only those who are not familiar with the national reality will be surprised by the situation of great distress that many thousands of small entrepreneurs and their families are going through. The epidemic outbreak that affects the country and the world has brought to light even more, and brutally, the many weaknesses and problems that affect the Portuguese business fabric.
Not a single right less. Confidence and struggle for a better life
7 June 2020
First of all, on behalf of the Central Committee, please allow me to greet our whole Party, its organisations, all the militants who in companies, in workplaces, in cities, towns and villages, in class-oriented and associative movements, in the various institutions, in Local and Regional Government, in the Assembly of the Republic and in the European Parliament, who, in these difficult times of epidemic outbreak, wherever necessary, fulfil their role and our duty to uphold the interests of the workers and people.
Defend Public School so that no student is harmed
30 May 2020
Please accept a warm greeting for your initiative.
This greeting is all the more justified, since it is held in a context of special difficulties for the action and for the struggle that young communists, during these weeks, were able to face, never ceasing to be, with digital means or in person, where the youth are, accompanying their problems and aspirations, and assuming the demand for the necessary answers.
European Commission proposals do not respond to the country's needs
29 May 2020
The proposals presented by the European Commission, concerning the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027 and the so-called "recovery fund", will still be subject to debate and approval by the European Council and the European Parliament.
Sovereignty and development - Options for a Portugal with a future
27 May 2020
Good afternoon, everyone, participants and those who are following this debate. Our thanks to the speakers of this session and especially to Ricardo Paes Mamede for accepting the invitation to participate in it.
Among others, there are three great lessons that can be learned from this crisis, of health and economic, that I would like to highlight in this debate.
The centrality of work, of workers; the enormous importance, of public services, of public intervention; the core issue of national production and national sovereignty.