National Issues
The Working-class and Trade Union Movement
3 December 2016
Greetings to the working class movement and to the workers, whose example, courage and determination inspired the struggle of other sectors and who, when everything seemed inevitable and when others were folding their arms, were present - in the workplaces, the shopfloors, the streets - and were resisting and fighting back, asserting themselves as the great driving force of the mass struggle.
Special greetings to the broad Trade Union movement and to the great Trade Union central of the Portuguese workers, CGTP – Intersindical Nacional.
The international relations of the PCP. The PCP and the international communist and revolutionary movement
3 December 2016
Comrades,
It is with great pleasure that we are hosting in our Congress 62 delegations from communist parties and other progressive and revolutionary forces, of national liberation movements, of parties with whom we have deep historical ties, who bring us the resistance, struggle and achievements of their peoples.
The struggle and the anti-imperialist unity. The struggle for peace
3 December 2016
Dear comrades,
We are experiencing a particularly complex international moment marked by the deepening of the structural crisis of capitalism in which imperialism intensifies its violent and multifaceted offensive, with a worsening insecurity and instability of the situation in Europe and the World as a result of the militarist and aggressive escalation promoted by the States United, by NATO, the great powers of the European Union and its allies, who continue to implement policies and measures, targeting the peoples and States that affirm their rights, sovereignty and independence.
The political and ideological struggle
3 December 2016
Comrades,
Ever since the XIXth Congress four years ago, the ideological onslaught against workers and their struggle, against PCP and its political and social interventions, against its efforts to build a patriotic and left-wing alternative and against its project for a socialist society have intensified and become more diverse in our country.
Policy of Cadres
3 December 2016
Since the XIX Congress particular demands, new tasks and challenges occurred, along with intense activity that would not have been possible without the commitment, effort and dedication of thousands of Party cadres. And we endorsed a set of guidelines for developing, refining, correcting deficiencies, and raising Party policy to a new level.
On the public debt
3 December 2016
Imagine an indebted country, under unrelenting pressure, oversight and blackmail from the European institutions; a country with no monetary or exchange rate policies, and with less and less budget policy; a country where a good part of all essential or strategic companies, as well as the financial system, are controlled from abroad. That country may be formally independent, but it has extremely limited sovereignty.
A new phase of the political life
3 December 2016
Comrades,
For six years the workers and the people have developed an intense struggle against the PEC´s policies and the Pact of Aggression Pact subscribed by PS, PSD and CDS-PP and implemented by the PSD/CDS.
It was this resistant struggle, in various hard conditions and against calls for submission and conformism, which lead to the defeat of the PSD/CDS government, thus confirming the importance of the struggle and its decisive importance.
Greeting Message of the Syrian Communist Party
3 December 2016
Message of greeting from the Syrian Communist Party to the XX Congress of Portuguese Communist Party
(General Secretary of the Central Committee Ammar Bagdache)
Dear comrades, delegates of the XX Congress of Portuguese Communist Party.
Motion «The struggle for peace and international solidarity»
2 December 2016
Motion approved unanimously by the XX Congress of the PCP
The offensive of imperialism spread the war and aggravated exploitation and poverty in the world.
The Crisis of Capitalism and the Communists
2 December 2016
History didn't end in 1989, after all! The deep, global, dense, systemic crisis of capitalism proves it. The crisis has shown that its exploitative, oppressing, aggressive, predatory nature did not derive from its competition with the USSR and the socialist world. Those features are inherent to the system itself. It is not by chance that the crisis is located at the centre of the capitalist system. The root causes of the problems faced by workers and peoples are inherent to the system, they exist within the system.