National Issues
Closing Rally of the 25th "Avante!" Festival
9 September 2001
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Speaking during the rally of the 25th. "Avante!" Festival, we know perfectly well that even the most inspired words could never fairly express everything about the 25 years of this event and its meaning.
To Strengthen, the Intervention and Organisation among the Working Class and the Workers
21 April 2001
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The strengthening of the intervention and organisation of the Party among the working class and the workers in general has been a central issue in all great accomplishments, guidelines and decisions, and reaffirmed in the 16th. Congress.
80th Anniversary of the PCP
9 March 2001
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Comrades and friends,
As it has and will go on happening in many different places throughout our country, here we are gathering, today in Lisbon to evoke, with repeated emotion and renewed pride, the 80 years of life and struggle of our Party, the Portuguese Communist Party.
About the electoral results for the presidential elections
10 January 2001
I would like to begin by greeting all the members and sympathisers who from the very beginning associated with this candidacy and gave themselves to our campaign with enthusiasm or sent us words of incitement during its course. I would also like to greet the youth and, specially the JCP, for the enthusiasm and support given to us.
XVI PCP Congress
10 December 2000
Political Resolution of the XVI PCP Congress (Excerpts from Chapter I and Chapter IV)
10 December 2000
Chapter I - International Situacion
1. Capitalism
2. The worker's and peoples' struggle
3. The alternative is socialism
Chapter IV - The PCP, asserting its identity, increasing its influence
Motion - In defense of Peace
10 December 2000
Mankind is facing a gigantic challenge. Under the imperial baton of the US administration, the nuclear and space arms race and the globe's militarisation continue.
Motion - Solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian People
10 December 2000
The 16th Congress of the PCP warmly and fraternally greets the Palestinian people and their prolonged and heroic national liberation struggle, against Israeli occupation and brutal aggression, for their right to a fatherland, to self-determination and to peace.
In this long path to freedom, there are countless victims, to whose memory we pay tribute.
Opening speech by Carlos Carvalhas - XVI Congress of the Portuguese Communist Party
8 December 2000
Dear Friends and Comrades,
Dear foreign and national guests,
First of all I wish to thank you for your presence and I specially want to greet all the comrade delegates and, through you, to greet the whole party collective that you represent and the populations of the regions you come from.