National Issues

Communiqué of PCP's Central Committee - Meeting of 5th-6th February 2000

The Central Committee of the PCP, having met on February 5th and 6th, analysed and discussed the social and political situation, appreciated the activity carried out lately by the Party and defined the essential party tasks in the immediate future.

The results of the national elections

1. This is the time to start by stressing that, as the country knows and nobody may deny, in these elections the main aim of the CDU's campaign was to strengthen its voting and the number of elected MP's.

Communiqué of the Central Committee of the PCP - 29 March 1999

1. The Central Committee stresses as very relevant features of the national political situation:

5º Congress of Portuguese Communist Youth

excerpts (...) The invasion of Yugoslavia We strongly draw the attention of all the Portuguese, particularly of the youngsters, to an extremely serious fact, which deserves profound indignation.

Closing Rally at the 22nd "Avante!" Festival

(excerpts) Comrades, There may be people who ask why it is that our Festival, which is now in its 22d edition, continues to give rise to such widespread attention and to evoke in us all such emotion, such admiration and such legitimate pride.

3rd Assembly of the Lisbon Intellectual

Esteemed guests and dear friends Comrades, I would like to begin by greeting you and at the same time stress the importance of your intervention in the strengthening of our Party and the construction of an alternative. Important contributions

International Meeting “The communist parties under the current conditions”

Intervention of the Portuguese Communist Party by Carlos Aboim Inglez 22-24 05 1998 Athens

Rally celebrating the PCP's 77th Anniversary

It is now 150 years since the publication of the Communist Manifesto, the unforgettable work by Marx and Engels that gave a decisive theoretical impulse to a great movement of ideas and struggles guided by the innovating and revolutionary perspective of the overhaul of capitalism.

The 150th Anniversary of the Manifesto of the Communist Party

We gather here, today, at the Vitoria Party Centre, in this act to evoke the Communist Manifesto, in an act to evoke the works of Marx and Engels. It is only a simple initiative, but meaningful to all of us. We do this with our eyes set in the future and in the combats that we have ahead of us, at this turn of the century.