National Issues
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.
The economic situation of the country (The urgency of national production)
2 December 2016
In the 90s of the last century, after a decade and a half of the destruction of April’s conquests, from Agrarian Reform to nationalization and workers' rights, the political representatives of triumphant capitalism promised the Portuguese people the effortless kingdom of milk and honey. The textile and footwear sector were dispensable; heavy metallurgy was a burden that needed to be removed; growing cabbages and potatoes was outdated; fishing was obsolete.
The PCP Program, the socialist project for Portugal
2 December 2016
The supreme objectives of our Party, the party of the working class and all workers, are socialism and communism, are the building up in Portugal of a classless society, authentically free, from which exploitation is abolished and inequalities and social injustices forever banned, as well as social injustices and all kinds of perversions inherent in the capitalist system. This project, which is the main reason of the PCP’s existence, is always present in the horizon of the revolutionary action of the Portuguese communists.
On the changes to the Theses/Draft Political Resolution
2 December 2016
The Report of the Drafting Committee that will be distributed contains information on the changes introduced in the Theses/Draft Political Resolution.
The Draft Resolution that is submitted to the Congress today is the result of an intense process of collective debate that, from the first phase - with the discussion of the topics and themes that would shape the theses project – till the discussion in this third phase, called on the Party collective to contribute to its construction.
A debate held and filled by the free contribution of Party members.