National Issues

Closing Rally - 26th Avante! Festival’s

With our convictions, with our values, with our struggle asset, here we are in Atalaia, in this beautiful Avante! Festival, in these three days of a festival which the youth made their own. Some ask themselves why there were this year more people helping build the festival and why more youth attended.

Meeting with the builders of the "Avante!" Festival

We are here today at one of the many militant voluntary work and get-together days that will precede the Avante Festival, the great festival of freedom and democracy, a great cultural event and the biggest party political achievement carried out in our country.

Information of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party

1. The executive organisms of the Central Committee have been following the evolution of the internal situation of the PCP and, particularly, the behaviours of some of its members.

Closing speech - PCP’s National Conference on “The new political framework and tasks for the strengthening of the Party’s intervention and influence”

(excerpts) Our Conference is drawing to a close, after a great effort by the organisations to involve the militants in the debate and reflection to find answers and ways to enable us to overcome deficiencies, dynamize the political initiative from the base to the top, strengthen our capacity of struggle and qualified intervention in opposing the policy of the right.

Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP - 20 March 2002

1. Last Sunday's electoral results not only jeopardize the opportunity for a political change in the direction the country and its problems demanded, but signify a very unfavourable situation in the national political life, the risk of a dangerous deepening of the policy of the right and further developments in the offensive against social rights and conquests.

About election results of March 17, 2002

On a first appreciation of the results, we stress as an extremely negative fact, the achievement together by PSD and CDS-PP of an absolute majority of deputies, as this represents a very unfavourable evolution of the national political situation, which CDU fought firmly during the electoral campaign.

Carlos Carvalhas, General-Secretary of the P.C.P. at the CDU's Meeting in Lisbon

In this meeting of the Democratic Unitary Coalition - CDU, Carlos Carvalhas, General Secretary of the PCP removed confusions and mystifications and put forward proposals to solve the country's problems.

Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP - 19 January 2002

The Central Committee, having met on January 19th., analysed the present aspects of the national political situation, issues of party life and intervention, and the state of the preparation of the campaign for the Assembly of the Republic. I. Aspects of the political situation and the pre-electoral framework

Communiqué by the Political Commission of the PCP

1. Having met on 7th. January, the Political Committee of the PCP analysed aspects following the calling of early legislative elections and debated the preparatory work of PCP's electoral intervention.

Communiqué Central Committee of the PCP - 29 November 2001

(Excerpts) I A GOVERNMENT TURN TO THE RIGHT DEEPENS