Portuguese Communist Party

Not to be confused with Portuguese Workers' Communist Party.

Political party in Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party

Partido Comunista Português

Abbreviation| PCP
General Secretary| Paulo Raimundo
Founded| 6 March 1921 (1921-03-06)
Legalized| 26 December 1974 (1974-12-26)[1]
Preceded by| Portuguese Maximalist Federation
Headquarters| Rua Soeiro Pereira Gomes 3, 1600-019 Lisboa
Newspaper|

* Avante!
* O Militante

Youth wing| Portuguese Communist Youth
Membership (2020)|  49,960[2][needs update]
Ideology|

* Communism
* Marxism–Leninism
* Anti-revisionism[5]
* Hard Euroscepticism[8]

Political position| Left-wing to far-left
National affiliation| Unitary Democratic Coalition
European Parliament group| The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL[9]
International affiliation| IMCWP
Colours|  Red
Slogan| "For Freedom, Democracy, and Socialism. The Future has a Party!"[10]
Anthem| "The Internationale"[11][12]
Assembly of the Republic|

4 / 230

European Parliament|

1 / 21

Regional Parliaments|

0 / 104

Local government
(Mayors)|

18 / 308

Local government
(Parishes)|

112 / 3,066

Election symbol
Party flag
Website
www.pcp.pt

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The Portuguese Communist Party (Portuguese: Partido Comunista Português, pronounced [pɐɾˈtiðu kumuˈniʃtɐ puɾtuˈɣeʃ], PCP) is a communist[13] and Marxist–Leninist[13][14] political party in Portugal based upon democratic centralism. It is one of the strongest communist parties in Western Europe and the oldest Portuguese political party with uninterrupted existence.[15] It is characterized as being between the left-wing[16] and far-left on the political spectrum.[17] Since 1987, it runs to any national, local and European elections in coalition with the Ecologist Party "The Greens" (PEV), assembled in the Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU).

PCP has seats in the Assembly of the Republic and the European Parliament, where it is part of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left group.[18] After the death of its secretary-general, Bento Gonçalves, in the Tarrafal concentration camp, the Part went through a period, from 1942 to 1961, without a secretary-general. In 1961, the historic leader Álvaro Cunhal is elected. In 1992, he is succeeded by Carlos Carvalhas, and in 2004 Jerónimo de Sousa is chosen by the Central Comitee to be PCP's Secretary General until 2022, when Paulo Raimundo is elected.[19]

The party was founded in 1921, establishing contacts with the Comintern in 1922 and becoming its Portuguese section in 1923.[20][21] The PCP was banned after the 1926 military coup and subsequently played a major role in the opposition against the dictatorial regime of António de Oliveira Salazar and Marcelo Caetano. During the nearly five-decade-long dictatorship, the PCP was constantly suppressed by the secret police, which forced the party's members to live in clandestine status under the threat of arrest, torture, and murder. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, which overthrew the regime, the 36 members of party's Central Committee had, in the aggregate, experienced more than 300 years in jail.[22]

After the end of the dictatorship, the party became a major political force in the new democratic government. One of its goals, according to the party is to maintain its "vanguard role in the service of the class interests of the workers".[23][24] Currently, the PCP is the joint sixth largest in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic, where it holds 4 of the 230 assembly seats.[25]

The party publishes the weekly Avante!, founded in 1931. Its youth organization is the Portuguese Communist Youth, a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth.

## Party's origins and formation (1919-1926)

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### Portuguese Maximalist Federation

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At the end of World War I, in 1918, Portugal fell into a serious economic crisis, in part due to the Portuguese military intervention in the war. The Portuguese working classes responded to the deterioration in their living standards with a wave of strikes. Supported by an emerging labour movement, the workers achieved some of their objectives, such as an eight-hour working day.[26]

In September 1919, the revolutionary syndicalists of the more radical sectors of the labour movement founded the Portuguese Maximalist Federation.[27] Two years before, the October revolution had occurred, which led to the creation of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.[27] The worsening of the living conditions potentiated the amplification and radicalization of the social movement, and in the same year, the General Confederation of Labour was constituted.[27] In this Federation, inspired by the Bolshevik revolution, there were those who did not conform to the impasses and limitations of the traditional trade union action.[27] They sought to follow the example of the Bolshevik revolution, proclaiming through the insurrectional path and working towards its repetition.[27] The designation "maximalist" was chosen because: "After a broad debate the conclusion that Bolshevism meant 'revolution taken to the max' was reached".[27]

The ideological consistent of its leaders was low, inheriting what they had from their syndicalist origins, still far from freeing it to embrace the doctrine and dominating conceptions of Lenin's Party.[28] Despite this, another centre opened in the Portuguese workers' movement, claiming that the syndicalist organization, in itself, was insufficient in a new social order.[28] However, the organization wasn't able to survive the impact of the arrest of their main entertainer, Manuel Ribeiro, at the end of 1920.[28] The articles that he published in the maximalist newspaper "Red Flag" (Bandeira Vermelha), about the governmental behavior in the strike of the railway workers where he ended up arrested, or the "cold dread that the government felt because of the propaganda of the triumphant revolution in Russia", lead to the ban of the Maximalist Federation.[29]

### Portuguese Communist Party

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#### Foundation of the Portuguese Communist Party

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However, after three months the Portuguese Communist Party would be founded, continuing with the group of people that in the disarticulation of the Maximalist Federation demeaned the need of a communist congress.[29] The PCP was founded on the 6 of March of 1921.[30] Shortly after the Party's foundation, the Communist Youth was created, that immediately established contact with the Young Communist International.[31]

The third of the provisional organic Basis states that:[30]

> "The supreme goal that the Portuguese Communist Party will seek to make in a revolutionary action, that the circumstances of the European and national means make timely, is the full socialization of the means of production, circulation and consumption, this means, the radical transformation of capital society into a communist society".

The historian João Madeira considers that in the document remained "a set of confusing and not very clear references, or that collided with the doctrine in which the Soviet experience anchored itself, that had been working since the maximalist experience".[30]

#### Connection to the Communist International and I Congress

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In 1922, PCP's connection to the Communist International (Comintern) is established, the PCP's Secretary of the National Board, Henrique Caetano de Sousa, was designated by the Party as its delegate for the IV Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, where he would become the only leader in PCP's history to be in the presence of Vladimir Lenin. The militant José Pires Barreira is nominated as PCP's delegate for the III Congress of the Communist Youth International.[32][33] However, the political divergences and personal rivalries within the Party generated a profound crisis, that lead to the arrival of a Comintern delegate, the Swiss Jules Humbert-Droz, in mid August, 1923.[33] He knew the condition of the Party's creation — outside of any direct influence from the Comintern, and that the Party's model had nothing to do with the Leninist model of democratic centralism.[33]

According to Droz's evaluation, "[the] Party hadn't yet had its constituent congress and didn't have an organic status nor a theoretical and tactical program".[34]

Besides this, what also concerned the "international" was the organic desegregation state found in the Party, polarized in two groups, on one side Henrique Caetano de Sousa and José Pires Barreira, and on the other, Carlos Rates, that mutually fought.[34] The Congress, meanwhile postponed to November, 1923, had Droz's participation, armed with a Comintern mandate that gave him full powers.[34] Having constituted the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.[34] The Congress elected a new Central Committee (CC), through secret and nominal voting. Out of 71 lists, Carlos Rates was, with 70 votes, the leader more voted in a CC of nine members, becoming the 1st Secretary General of PCP.[35] In these circumstances, it would have to be established if it was possible to not only clarify the Party's political line but also pass to the social and political intervention, unifying a Party with feeble origins and diffuse thoughts, making way for its bolshevization, like the Communist International demanded.[35] The Communist Youth is, in fact, dissolved.[36]

José Carlos Rates, 1st Secretary General of the PCP

Right after the Congress, PCP became very active.[35] In the beginning of the following year, Carlos Rates went to Moscow to participate in the V Congress of the Communist International.[37] Because of his absence, or not, there's an attempt of change of direction in the Party's orientation, starting to focus its propaganda on the danger of a right-wing coup and defending a left front that included the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) and the Democratic Leftwing Republican Party (ED).[37]

#### 1924 manifestation

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The danger of the right and the coverage of the left front made it that in a big manifestation, in February 1924, they screamed "Down with the reaction!" and "Out with the predominance of living forces!".[37] The communists militants, while telling the press they were standing before the beginning of a proletarian revolution, also stated that it was through their initiative and effort that the protesters that wanted to overtake the parliament were diverted to the headquarters of the newspaper "A Batalha".[37] At the same time that the PCP maintained the version of the imminent revolution, it was also going through many political weaknesses, tactical uncertainties, and profound contradictions, that would end up internally dividing the Party.[37] It was particularly significant that the PCP's representation in the V Congress in the International was ensured by Jules Humbert-Droz, and not by the main leader of the Party, Carlos Rates.[37] The "international" didn't fail to recognize that: "It didn't have illusions about the communist maturity of the Party's direction".[37]

Unlike virtually all other European communist parties, the PCP was not formed after a split of a social democratic or socialist party, but from the ranks of anarcho-syndicalist and revolutionary syndicalist groups, the most active factions in the Portuguese labor movement.[26] The party opened its first headquarters in the Arco do Marquês do Alegrete Street in Lisbon. Seven months after its creation, the first issue of O Comunista (The Communist), the first newspaper of the party, was published.[26]

The congress was attended by about a hundred members of the party and asserted its solidarity with socialism in the Soviet Union and the need for a strong struggle for similar policies in Portugal; it also stated that a fascist coup in Portugal was a serious threat to the party and to the country.[38]

#### 1925 legislative elections

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For the 1925 legislative elections, PCP proposed an alliance, but it was rejected by the Portuguese Socialist Party, only forming the ED/PCP bloc, where none of the eight PCP candidates, that participated in the respective lists, were elected.[39] In "O Trabalhador Rural", for example, considered that the Party was hidden by its allied, and that the tactic ended up manifesting negatively.[39] It was about the failure of Carlos Rates' direction.[39]

Related or not with this failure and the resulting disappointments, Rates accepts a beneficial proposal by the Union of Economic Interests, a powerful employer central, to be a writer for the newspaper, "O Século".[39] The Party and Comintern found this an unacceptable action with the role he had, and his resignation was demanded.[39] However, he rejected that, being kicked out the Party on the II Congress, in a framework of demoralization and weakening.[39]

#### Establishment of the military dictatorship

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This Congress started in Lisbon on the 29th of May, 1926, a day after the coup that, beginning in Braga, established the military dictatorship.[39] Despite this, and still conditioned by this event, the congress' works prolonged until the 30th.[39] A motion is approved, identifying it as a fascist movement, and mandating immediately that the delegates that were present contacted the CGT and the Democratic Leftwing, with the goal of proposing an organization as an answer to the coup.[40] However, the answers were met with hesitation and indifference, especially by the CGT, opposing to any alliance with political parties.[40]. The Democratic Leftwing opted to support the coup.[40] PCP, weak enough to elaborate any autonomous reaction, ended the congress on 30 May.[40]

## Party's outlawing and clandestinity (1926-1974)

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### Repression and resistance

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#### Beginning of the repression

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The repression hits the Party in Lisbon, with the break-in of their headquarters, syndicates that it influenced, and the arrest of some leaders, thus causing its disarticulation in the country's capital.[40] Despite the party's activity remaining in some places, like in Porto, the repression that fell upon the February 1927 Revolt is considered demolishing.[40] The break-in and the closing of the regional headquarter led to the dissolving of the north's leadership.[40] The party's activity shrinks, but the channels with the Communist International (CI) remained open, with two Portuguese delegations going to Moscow, one for the 10th anniversary of the February revolution, in 1927, and another for a congress of the Red Trade Union International, in 1928.[41] These delegations included army and navy arsenalists, even though many elements weren't yet part of the Party, like Bento Gonçalves.[41]

#### 1929's "reorganization"

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Bento Gonçalves (1929–1942)

In the summer of 1928, when the VI Congress of the CI took place, the PCP was reduced to 50 elements in Lisbon and 20 in Porto.[41] On the 21st of April 1929, 15 militants gathered in a Conference to proceed to the Party's reorganization.[41] Bento Gonçalves will acknowledge that: "we were few and young".[41]

The new Provisional Central Executive Committee didn't include any of its past elements.[42] It is composed of, among others, by Bento Gonçalves, who will become secretary-general in the first meeting of the new governing body.[42] The April 1929 Conference marked a cut with the previous PCP situation in the organic level, despite the fact that, the ideological changes in the near future will, in the political and ideological point-of-view, be significantly unimpressive.[42] In this phase, "O Proletário" is the main press agency.[42] It is also in this phase that the historian João Madeira considers that Bento reveals himself as "a leader equipped with a strategic sense of action and invested in the doctrinal formulation and consolidation of the party" and that "[he] constituted the most important theoretical production, of Marxist character that PCP had produced".[43] In 1930, the foundations are set for the relaunching of the Federation of the Portuguese Communist Youths.[36] Bento Gonçalves characterized the new regime that was installing itself in Portugal from the Military Dictatorship as fascist.[44] Even though Bento wasn't yet a party official, he was arrested while working in the Navy's Arsenal, in September 1930, being deported without a trial to Cape Verde, where he was jailed for three years.[44]

In the middle of 1931, no element of the Central Executive Committee elected in the April Conference remained free, except José de Sousa, that had immense activity as a union responsible, having also been head of the delegation to the XII Plenum of the Comintern.[45] The Secretariat now consisted of other members.[44]

In the last trimester of 1934, Álvaro Cunhal is recruited by the PCP via the Federation of the Portuguese Communist Youths.[46] There were rapid vertical mobility processes. given the context of the new militants membership in a framework of great repression, having militants, a lot of the time newcomers, being called for intermediate and even superior bodies.[46] In the VII Congress of the Communist International, in 1935, the PCP Secretariat publishes a resolution that seeks to enshrine, once again, the change in political orientation of the PCP, opposing the fascist unit and the construction of the "Popular Front" to the "class versus class" politic of the Comintern, that revealed itself difficult to accomplish.[47][48] The document also notes the absence of a Socialist Party, critics the anarcho-syndicalists and revolt republicans, persisting, however, in the idea that in those sectors there was an ongoing shift to what could lead to a likely approach to the antifascist front.[47] The VII Congress of the CI had a profound impact in the delegation.[49] Bento Gonçalves send the following note to the leaders in the interior about the transformations that would have to happen in the PCP:[49]

> "The VII Congress highlighted our lack of work in the organizations of fascist masses and others, our political lines excessively sectarian, our slogans and our very radical campaigns, our delay in the united front and the popular front against the fascist dictatorship".

#### Secretariat's arrest

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Surprised by the political police, on November 1935, in what was described by the historian João Madeira as a "reckless and incredible street meeting", leads, in a single move, to the arrest of the whole Secretariat.[49] Due to this event in the return of the PCP's delegation, the return of the remaining elements is postponed to March 1936.[49] Bento Gonçalves and Franscisco Oliveira expose the behavior of a member of the delegation that stayed in Moscow until January 1936, that facing the police, had exposed one of the Party's typographies and a clandestine house of the Communist Youth whilst being previously arrested, was kicked out by the International Staff Committee, leaving a "ballast of distrust towards the PCP".[49] The efforts that begun in 1929 were unfeasible for many years, and until the end of the decade the Party never recovered itself, in a political, ideological and organic sense.[49] The leadership is recomposed of second-line militants that compose an appeal Secretariat until the spring of 1936.[50] In April 1936, an extended meeting of the board elected a new Central Committee, having Álvaro Cunhal in it for the first time.[50] However, this turbulence is seen by the Communist International as suspicious.[50]

#### The PCP in the Spanish Civil War

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Álvaro Cunhal (1961–1992), its 3rd and longest serving secretary-general.

The PCP's presence in Spain during the Republic and Civil War was due largely to the presence of a high-level Comintern delegation, that ensured the connection between the Central Committee and the Communist Party of Spain, party cadres that featured Victorio Codovilla and Palmiro Togliatti, aspiring the Portuguese representation to a direct connection to the International, with the CPS's intermediation.[51] Militants were sent to Spain to fight on the battlefront for the Republic in the International Brigades, even though that wasn't a central goal of the Party.[52] Nevertheless, it's estimated that there were between 500 and 1200 Portuguese fighters in the republican ranks.[52] Cunhal and Francisco Oliveira arrived in Portugal in January 1937, and Francisco Miguel arrived the following month, all directly from the Soviet Union.[52]

#### Suspension of the Communist International

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CTG's refusal and the republican's reservations caused difficulties in giving shape to the Popular Front.[53] The difficulties to solve the internal wars were large, and the constant police pressure lead to consecutive raids.[53] Cunhal is arrested in July 1937, Alberto Araújo in November, Francisco de Paula Oliveira and Francisco Miguel in January 1938.[53] The organizational situation and the social influence were weak, and the Popular Front was inactive and disjointed.[54] The situation, scrutinized gruffly by Moscow, lead to the suspicion that the Party could be corrupted by police and agent provocateur, since the rhythm of the party cadres' arrests was very high, and that the efforts to replace them from the outside showed to be ineffective.[54] Francisco de Oliveira (Pável) escaped from Aljube's prison and gets out of the country towards Paris and Moscow.[54] In the Comintern, suspicions grew - suspecting the reasons of the success of Pável's escape from salazarist prisons, and being that, all past students of the Leninist School that had come back in 1938, were all arrested, only one being able to escape prison.[55] The Cadres Section of the International suspended the Party and put them under surveillance, cutting ties with it (but not expelling it), under the pretext that they remain: "in the CP of Portugal an environment, observed by the ECCI in 1936, of corrosive provocation and fractionism of the Party".[49]

#### Beginning of the Second World War

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Álvaro Cunhal's sentence ends on July 1938, when the internal problems in PCP's leadership are advanced.[55] He continues his studies, and doesn't return immediately to clandestinity, but does not also deprive himself from political activity.[56] In 1939 the Second World War starts, and he receives the task of clarifying the Party's position.[57] The Popular Front's strategy ends, evidenced by an article on the party's newspaper:[57]

> "The war making more profound the contradictions of capitalism, clearly unmasking the "leaders" of the II International as traitors of the proletariat in service of the bourgeoisie, demonstrating that the communists are the only true defenders of the working class, made it possible in some countries to face the seizing of power by the proletariat as a task to put on the agenda".

However, Cunhal and Carolina Loff, important member of the leading group, were arrested, leaving the PCP weakened in many aspects.[57]

### The "Reorganization"

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#### Concept of "Reorganization"

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The fourth congress, held in July 1946, pointed to massive popular struggle as the only way to overthrow the regime, and stated the policies that would help the party leaders that same popular movement. This, along with the consolidation of the clandestine work, was the main conclusion of the congress. A brief report of the conclusions of this congress were published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. At this time, Álvaro Cunhal travelled to Yugoslavia with the aid of Bento de Jesus Caraça to improve relations with the Socialist Bloc. Later, in 1948, he travelled to the Soviet Union to speak with Mikhail Suslov, after which the bonds between the PCP and the international communist movement were re-established.[58] Soon after returning from the Soviet Union, Cunhal was arrested by the PIDE. The fifth congress, held in September 1957, was the only congress to be held outside Portugal. In Kyiv, the Party approved its first program and statutes. For the first time, the party took an official position on colonialism, stating that every people had the right of self-determination, and made clear its support of the liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies, such as MPLA in Angola, FRELIMO in Mozambique, and PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau.

In January 1960, a group of ten PCP members managed to escape from the high-security prison in Peniche.[22] The escape returned to freedom many of the leading figures of the Party, among them, Álvaro Cunhal, who would be elected in the following year the first secretary-general in nineteen years. Among the escapees was also Jaime Serra, who would help to organize a secret commando group, the Armed Revolutionary Action (Portuguese: Acção Revolucionária Armada or ARA). The ARA was the armed branch of the PCP that would be responsible in the 1970s for some military action against the dictatorial regime.

In 1961, the Colonial War in Africa began - first in Angola, and in the next year in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. The war lasted thirteen years and devastated Portuguese society, forcing many thousands of Portuguese citizens to leave the country, both to seek a better future in countries like France, Germany, or Switzerland and to escape conscription. The PCP, which had been involved in the formation of the nationalist guerrilla movements, along with the Soviet Union, immediately stated its opposition to the war, and its support for the anti-colonial movements. The war prompted unrest in Portuguese society and helped lead to the decline of the Salazar regime.[59] In 1962, the Academic Crisis occurred. The Salazar regime, fearing the growing popularity of democratic ideas among students, made several student associations and organizations illegal, including the National Secretariat of Portuguese Students. Most members of this organization were intellectual communist militants who were persecuted and forbidden to continue their university studies.[60] With assistance from the PCP, the students responded with demonstrations that culminated on 24 March with a large student demonstration in Lisbon. The demonstration was brutally suppressed by the police, leading to hundreds of injuries among the protesters.[61] Immediately thereafter, the students began a strike against the regime.

In the sixth congress, in 1965, Álvaro Cunhal, elected secretary-general in 1961, released the report, The Path to Victory—The Tasks of the Party in the National and Democratic Revolution, written while he was in exile in Moscow in collaboration with Margarida Tengarrinha,[62] which became a document of major influence in the democratic movement. Widely distributed among the clandestine members, it contained eight political goals, such as "the end of the monopolies in the economy", "the need for agrarian reform and redistribution of the land", and "the democratization of access to culture and education" -- policies that the Party considered essential to make Portugal a fully democratic country. Nine years later, on 25 April 1974, the Carnation Revolution occurred, putting an end to 48 years of resistance and marking the beginning of a new cycle in the party's life.

### Carnation Revolution

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"Legalização do Partido Comunista Português" (transl. Legalization of the Portuguese Communist Party) (1974)

Immediately after the revolution, basic democratic rights were re-established in Portugal. On 27 April, political prisoners were freed. On 30 April, Álvaro Cunhal returned to Lisbon, where he was received by thousands of people. May Day was commemorated for the first time in 48 years, and an estimated half million people gathered in the FNAT Stadium (now 1 May Stadium) in Lisbon to hear speeches by Cunhal and the socialist Mário Soares.[63] On 17 May, the party's newspaper, Avante!, produced the first legal issue in its history.

The following months were marked by radical changes in the country, always closely followed and supported by PCP. A stormy process to give independence to the colonies started with the full support of the party and, within a year, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe became independent countries.

Six months after the Carnation Revolution, on 20 October 1974, the party's seventh congress took place. More than a thousand delegates and hundreds of Portuguese and foreign guests attended. The congress set forth important statements that discussed the ongoing revolution in the country. The 36 members of the elected central committee had in the aggregate experienced more than 300 years in jail.[64] On 26 December 1974, the PCP became the first legally recognized party.[1]

The revolutionary process continued. On 11 March 1975, the left-wing military forces defeated a coup attempt by rightists in the military.[65] This resulted in a turn in the revolutionary process to the political left, with the main sectors of the economy, such as the banks, transportation, steel mills, mines, and communications companies, being nationalized. This was done under the lead of Vasco Gonçalves, a member of the military wing who supported the party and who had become prime minister after the first provisional government resigned. The party then asserted its complete support for these changes and for the Agrarian Reform process that implemented collectivization of the agricultural sector and the land in a region named the "Zone of Intervention of the Agrarian Reform" or "ZIRA", which included the land south of the Tagus River.[65] The PCP took the lead of that process and drove it according to the party's program, organizing thousands of peasants into cooperatives. Combined with the party's strong clandestine organization and support of the peasants' movement during the preceding years in that region, these efforts made the south of Portugal the major stronghold of the PCP. The party gained more than half of the votes in Beja, Évora, and Setúbal in subsequent elections.

One year after the revolution, the first democratic elections took place to elect the parliament that would write a new constitution to replace the constitution of 1933. The party achieved 12.52% of the vote and elected 30 members of parliament. In the end, as the party wanted, the constitution included several references to "socialism" and a "classless society" and was approved with the opposition of only one party, the right-wing Democratic and Social Centre (Portuguese: Centro Democrático Social or CDS).

In 1976, after the approval of the constitution, the second democratic election was carried out and the PCP raised its share of the vote to 14.56% and 40 seats. In the same year, the first Avante! Festival took place, and the eighth congress was held in Lisbon from 11–14 November. The congress mainly stated the need to continue the quest for socialism in Portugal and the need to defend the achievements of the revolution against what the party considered to be a political step backward, led by a coalition of the Socialist Party and the right-wing Centro Democrático Social, who opposed the agrarian reform process.

In 1979, the party held its ninth congress, which analysed the state of post-revolutionary Portugal, right-wing politics, and the party's struggles to nationalize the economy. In December 1979, new elections took place. The party formed the United People Alliance (Portuguese: Aliança Povo Unido or APU) in coalition with the Portuguese Democratic Movement (Portuguese: Movimento Democrático Português or MDP/CDE) and increased its vote to 18.96% and 47 seats. The election was won by a centrist/right-wing coalition led by Francisco Sá Carneiro, which immediately initiated policies that the party considered to be contrary to working-class interests. Despite a setback in a subsequent election in 1980, in which the PCP dropped to 41 seats, the party achieved several victories in local elections, winning the leadership of dozens of municipalities in the FEPU coalition. After the sudden death of Sá Carneiro in an air crash in 1980, the party achieved 44 seats and 18.20% of the vote as part of the APU in the 1983 elections. Also in 1983, the party held its tenth congress, which again criticized what it saw as the dangers of right-wing politics.

In 1986, the surprising rise of Mário Soares, who reached the second round in the presidential election, defeating the party's candidate, Salgado Zenha, made the party call an extra congress. The eleventh congress was called with only two weeks' notice, in order to decide whether or not to support Soares against Freitas do Amaral. Soares was supported, and he won by a slight margin. Had he not been supported by the PCP, he would have probably lost. In 1987, after the resignation of the government, another election took place. The PCP, now in the Unitary Democratic Coalition (Portuguese: Coligação Democrática Unitária or CDU) with the Ecologist Party "The Greens" (Portuguese: Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" or PEV) and the Democratic Intervention (Portuguese: Intervenção Democrática or ID), saw an electoral decline to 12.18% and 31 seats.

### Fall of the Socialist Bloc

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In 1988, the PCP held another congress, the twelfth, in which more than 2000 delegates participated and which put forth a new program entitled Portugal, an Advanced Democracy for the 21st Century.

At the end of the 1980s, the Socialist Bloc of Eastern Europe started to disintegrate, and the party faced one of the biggest crises in its history. With many members leaving, the party called a thirteenth congress for May 1990, in which a huge ideological battle occurred. The majority of the more than 2000 delegates decided to continue the party's "revolutionary way to Socialism" -- i. e., to retain its Leninist ideology. By so doing, it clashed with what many other communist parties around the world were doing. The congress asserted that socialism in the Soviet Union had failed, but a unique historical experience, several social changes, and several achievements by the labour movement had been influenced by the Socialist Bloc. Álvaro Cunhal was re-elected secretary-general, but Carlos Carvalhas was elected assistant secretary-general.

In the legislative election of 1991, the party won 8.84% of the national vote and 17 seats, continuing its electoral decline.

The fourteenth congress took place in 1992, and Carlos Carvalhas was elected the new secretary-general, replacing Álvaro Cunhal. The congress analysed the new international situation created by the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the defeat of socialism in Eastern Europe. The party also traced the guidelines intended to put Cavaco Silva and the right-wing government on its way out, a fact that would happen shortly after. In 1995, the right-wing Social Democratic Party was replaced in the government by the Socialist Party after the October legislative election, in which the PCP received 8.61% of the votes.

The logo of the PCP used until 2016

In December 1996, the fifteenth congress was held, this time in Porto, with more than 1600 delegates participating. The congress criticized the right-wing policies of the socialist government of António Guterres, and debated the future of the PCP following the debacle of the Socialist Bloc. In the subsequent local elections, the party continued to decline, but in the legislative election of 1999, the party increased its voting percentage for the first time in many years. The sixteenth congress was held in December 2000, and Carlos Carvalhas was re-elected secretary-general. In the legislative election of 2002, the PCP achieved its lowest voting result ever, with only 7.0% of the vote.

In November 2004, the seventeenth party congress elected Jerónimo de Sousa, a former metal worker, as the new secretary-general.

In the legislative election of February 2005, the Party increased its share of the vote, and won 12 of the 230 seats in parliament, receiving about 430,000 votes (7.60%).

After the 2005 local election, in which the PCP regained the presidency of 7 municipalities, the party holds the leadership of 32 (of 308) municipalities, most of them in Alentejo and Setúbal, and holds the leadership of hundreds of civil parishes and local assemblies. The local administration by PCP is usually marked by concern about such issues as preventing privatization of the water supply, funding culture and education, providing access to sports, and promoting health, facilitating participatory democracy, and preventing corruption.[66] The presence of the Greens in the coalition also keeps an eye on environmental issues such as recycling and water treatment.

The PCP's work now follows the program of an "Advanced Democracy for the 21st Century". Issues like the decriminalization of abortion, workers' rights, the increasing fees for the health service and education, the erosion of the social safety net, low salaries and pensions, imperialism and war, and solidarity with other countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Cuba, and the Basque Country are constant concerns in the party's agenda.[66]

The party has three members elected to the European Parliament, after the European election of 2014. They sit in the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group.

Since the 2015 legislative election, the party supports the government headed by António Costa, together with the Left Bloc and the Greens. However, the PCP has been historically critical of the Socialist Party.

In 2017, the party, alongside the Portuguese Socialist Party, the social-democratic PSD, BE and the ecologist party PEV, voted in favour of abolishing party fundraising limits, thereby opening all portuguese parties to private political donorship, with no obligation to disclose the donations source.[67][68][69][70] The new proposal was reluctantly approved by the Portuguese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.[71]

After the 2019 European Parliament election in Portugal the party lost one european deputy, it now has two members who sit in the European United Left-Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament.

### Reaction to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine

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Since the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the PCP has come under the spotlight for being the sole political party represented in Parliament to have avoided a clear condemnation of Russia from the start, choosing instead to repeatedly blame the United States, the European Union, and NATO for the war.[72][73]

On 24 February (the first day of the invasion), the party refused to condemn Russia, upon being explicitly invited to do so by Foreign Affairs Minister Augusto Santos Silva (Socialist Party) in a parliamentary debate. The communists stated that the conflict was "more profound" than "a problem between Russians and Ukrainians", and instead blamed the United States, accusing them of being "the party that is truly interested in having a new war in Europe" and of "promoting" it in order to "turn attentions away from internal problems" and to "ensure a large-scale sale of weapons".[74]

On 1 March, the two Communist Party members of the European Parliament voted against a resolution condemning the invasion. The party said the resolution was "fuelling the escalation", "seeking to impose a unilateral view" and "justifying the colossal process of increasing military expenditures, the strengthening and expansion of NATO and the militarisation of the EU". The document was approved with more than 600 votes in favour, 13 against and 26 abstentions.[75]

On 8 March, the PCP's leader Jerónimo de Sousa blamed all entities involved in the war (Russia included, although referring to its actions by the Kremlin's language of a "military operation"). He stated the party condemned "the whole process of meddling and of confrontation which took place [in Ukraine], the US-promoted coup d'état in 2014, Russia's recent military intervention and the intensification of the bellicose escalation made by the US, NATO and the EU".[76]

On 20 April, the PCP announced that it would not attend the Parliament's solemn session where President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky would speak, the following day. The party's parliamentary leader Paula Santos rejected condoning "the participation of someone who personifies a xenophobic and bellicose power", calling the session a "stage to contribute for the escalation of war".[77]

On 23 April, questioned by a journalist as to whether he considered that there was an invasion going on, party leader Jerónimo de Sousa replied: "There was a military operation which we have condemned." Following the journalist's insistence on the question, he rejected using the word 'invasion' and instead hesitantly responded: "At least, from the images we have... from the images we have, there is a conflict, there is a war. That is unavoidable and must be recognised."[78] The word 'invasion' would later be used officially by new secretary-general Paulo Raimundo,[79] following similar statements from fellow MPs.[80][81]

## Electoral results

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Main article: Electoral results of the Portuguese Communist Party

### Since 1975

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Vote share in the Portuguese elections since 1975

CDU results in the parliamentary election of 2005. (Azores and Madeira are not shown) CDU results in the local election of 2005. (Azores and Madeira are not shown) Results since 1975
(year links to election page)

Year  | Coalition  | Type of Election  | Votes  | %  | Mandates
1975 |

none

Constituent Assembly

711,935

12.5%

30 / 250

1976 |

none

Portuguese Parliament

788,830

14.4%

40 / 263

1976 |

FEPU

Local

720,499

17.3%

268 / 1,908

1979 |

APU

Portuguese Parliament

1,129,322

18.8%

44 / 250

1979 |

APU

Local

885,899

19.9%

316 / 1,900

1980 |

APU

Portuguese Parliament

1,009,505

16.8%

39 / 250

1982 |

APU

Local

1,038,033

20.9%

316 / 1,909

1983 |

APU

Portuguese Parliament

1,031,609

18.1%

41 / 250

1985 |

APU

Portuguese Parliament

898,281

15.5%

35 / 250

1985 |

APU

Local

935,897

19.6%

303 / 1,975

1987 |

CDU

Portuguese Parliament

689,137

12.1%

29 / 250

1987 |

CDU

European Parliament

648,700

11.5%

3 / 24

1989 |

CDU

European Parliament

597,759

14.4%

3 / 24

1989 |

CDU

Local

656,719

13.3%

258 / 2,002

1991 |

CDU

Portuguese Parliament

504,583

8.8%

15 / 230

1993 |

CDU

Local

689,923

12.8%

246 / 2,015

1994 |

CDU

European Parliament

340,725

11.2%

3 / 25

1995 |

CDU

Portuguese Parliament

506,157

8.6%

13 / 230

1997 |

CDU

Local

643,956

12.0%

236 / 2,021

1999 |

CDU

European Parliament

357,671

10.3%

2 / 25

1999 |

CDU

Portuguese Parliament

487,058

9.0%

15 / 230

2001 |

CDU

Local

557,481

10.6%

199 / 2,044

2002 |

CDU

Portuguese Parliament

379,870

6.9%

10 / 230

2004 |

CDU

European Parliament

309,401

9.1%

2 / 24

2005 |

CDU

Portuguese Parliament

433,369

7.5%

12 / 230

2005 |

CDU

Local

589,384

10.9%

203 / 2,046

2009 |

CDU

European Parliament

379,787

10.6%

2 / 22

2009 |

CDU

Portuguese Parliament

446,279

7.9%

13 / 230

2009 |

CDU

Local

537,329

9.7%

174 / 2,078

2011 |

CDU

Portuguese Parliament

441,147

7.9%

14 / 230

2013 |

CDU

Local

552,690

11.1%

213 / 2,086

2014 |

CDU

European Parliament

416,925

12.7%

3 / 21

2015 |

CDU

Portuguese Parliament

445,901

8.3%

15 / 230

2017 |

CDU

Local

489,189

9.5%

171 / 2,074

2019 |

CDU

European Parliament

228,045

6.9%

2 / 21

2019 |

CDU

Portuguese Parliament

332,018

6.3%

10 / 230

2021 |

CDU

Local

410,666

8.2%

148 / 2,064

2022 |

CDU

Portuguese Parliament

238,920

4.3%

6 / 230

2024 |

CDU

Portuguese Parliament

205,551

3.2%

4 / 230

2024 |

CDU

European Parliament

162,630

4.1%

1 / 21

(source: Portuguese Electoral Commission Archived 8 April 2005 at the Wayback Machine)

Note:

* In 2004, after the enlargement of the European Union, the number of MEPs elected by Portugal decreased from the original 25 to 24.
* The Local election results report the voting for the Municipal Chambers only and don't include occasional coalitions in some municipalities, e.g. in Lisbon, between 1989 and 2001. Voting for the Municipal Assemblies and Parish Assemblies is usually higher (11.7% and 12.0%, respectively, in 2005).
* The number of mandates denotes the number of councillors in Local elections, MPs in Parliamentary elections and MEPs in European Parliament elections.
* The CDU is composed of the PCP, the PEV and the ID

### Presidential

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Election  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | Result

|
|
|
|

1976 | Octávio Pato | 365,344  | 7.6 (#4)  | Lost N
1980 | Carlos Alfredo de Brito | Withdrew
1986 | Francisco Salgado Zenha | 1,185,867  | 20.6 (#3)  | Lost N
1991 | Carlos Carvalhas | 635,867  | 12.9 (#3)  | Lost N
1996 | Jerónimo de Sousa | Withdrew
2001 | António Simões de Abreu | 221,886  | 5.1 (#3)  | Lost N
2006 | Jerónimo de Sousa | 466,428  | 8.6 (#4)  | Lost N
2011 | Francisco Lopes | 300,921  | 7.1 (#4)  | Lost N
2016 | Edgar Silva | 183,051  | 3.9 (#5)  | Lost N
2021 | João Ferreira | 180,518  | 4.3 (#4)  | Lost N

(source: Portuguese Electoral Commission Archived 8 April 2005 at the Wayback Machine)

Notes:

* In 1980, Carlos Brito withdrew in favour of Ramalho Eanes, won.
* In 1986, the Party's first candidate was Ângelo Veloso, that later withdrew in favour of Salgado Zenha, lost.
* In 1986, in the second round, the Party supported Mário Soares, won.
* In 1996, Jerónimo de Sousa withdrew in favour of Jorge Sampaio, won.

## Organization

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PCP billboard in Lisbon, reading "Increase salaries and pensions, stop price rises. With you everyday, against exploitation and speculation."

### Principles

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The PCP's statutes define the party as the vanguard of the Portuguese proletariat. That vanguard role results from its class nature and its close liaison with the masses, mobilizing them and winning their support.

The PCP organizes in its ranks industrial and office workers, small and medium farmers, intellectuals and technical workers, small and medium shopkeepers, and industrialists, who fight for democracy and for socialism. The party considers itself the legitimate pursuer of the Portuguese people's best traditions of struggle and of their progressive and revolutionary achievements throughout their history.

The PCP upholds Marxism–Leninism as its theoretical basis,[82] which is a materialist and dialectical conception of the world and a scientific tool of social analysis. These principles guide the party's action and enable it to systematically answer new challenges and realities. The party also orients its members and its activity in the spirit of proletarian internationalism, of cooperation between the communist parties and revolutionary and progressive forces, and of solidarity with the workers of other countries.[66]

Aside from upholding Marxism–Leninism and maintaining its "proletarian vanguard role", its goals, according to the party are:

* to bring about the process of social transformation and the defeat of capitalism through revolutionary means,[23][24]
* to uphold dialectical and historical materialism as an "instrument of analysis and guide for action",
* the rupture with right-wing policies,
* the realization of a patriotic and left-wing alternative, and
* the realization of an "Advanced Democracy" with the values of the April revolution, for a future socialist and communist Portugal.[83]

### Secretaries-General

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* José Carlos Rates (1921–1929)
* Bento António Gonçalves (1929–1942)
* period with no secretary-general (1942–1961)
* Álvaro Cunhal (1961–1992)
* Carlos Carvalhas (1992–2004)
* Jerónimo de Sousa (2004–2022)
* Paulo Raimundo (2022–present)

### Internal organization

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The main principle that guides the party's internal structure, being a Leninist party, is democratic centralism, which implies that:[66]

* all party organs, from top to bottom, are elected and may be dismissed by those who elected them, if needed;
* the members who have tasks in any structure of the party are responsible to both lower and upper levels, being obliged to report the activities to both and to give consideration to their opinions and criticisms;
* lower-level structures must respect the decisions of the upper structures;
* every member is free to give his opinion during the discussion, and the structures must take in account the contribution of every member;
* every member must obey the decisions achieved by consensus or by a majority;
* every member must work along with his own structure; and
* the party does not recognize the existence of organized factions inside it.

The structure and internal organization of the PCP are defined by its statutes. The most recent statutes were approved in the seventeenth congress, held in 2004. The upper organs of the PCP at the national level are the congress, the central committee, and the central commission of control.

The supreme organ of the party is its congress, which is summoned by the outgoing central committee and held every four years. The congress is composed of delegates elected by the respective lower organs proportional to each organ's membership size. The congress approves its theses after a wide discussion period inside the organizations and may also change the party's program and statutes. All the decisions of the congress are made by the delegates voting. With the exception of the voting for the central committee, which a recent Portuguese law requires to be secret, all voting, including the approval of the theses, are conducted by a show of hands. The theses, after approval, guide all the party's political actions and stances until the next congress.

The main organ between the congresses is the central committee, which is elected in the congresses under a proposal of the retiring central committee. This proposal may only be made after a long period of hearing the lower structures in order to include in it the names they propose. The CC may not change the orientation present in the congress' theses. The main task of the central committee is to define the guidelines of the party's political work and decide the immediate tasks of the party, assuring that the lower structures comply with those decisions. The CC elects, from its members, its Politburo, its Secretariat, and also the Central Commission of Control. This last must assure the compliance between the Party's activities and the statutes, and control the Party's finances. The CC may, or may not, elect the party's secretary-general from its members.

The intermediate organs of the Party are, by rule, the organs that coordinate an organization of district, municipality, and parish levels, but organizations at a neighbourhood or professional class level also exist. The main organ of an intermediate part of the party's structure is the Assembly. The Assembly works as a small Congress for the organization members. The Assembly elects the regional or municipal committees, which are responsible for applying the theses of the Assembly to the organization's work.

The base level organ of the Party is the cell. The cell is defined as being the link between the party and the working class and the masses. A cell is composed of a minimum of three Party members and exists at a work place or neighborhood level. The cell may elect its own secretariat, which has the responsibility of discussing and putting into practice the Party's guidelines. The cell must ensure the recruitment of new members, promote the reading of Avante! and the other publications, ensure that the members pay their membership fees and keep the upper structures aware of the cell's political work.[66]

## Media

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80 Anos Avante!, wall painting.

The Portuguese Communist Party publishes the weekly Avante! (Onward!), widely distributed throughout the country, and also the magazine of theoretical discussion O Militante (The Militant), published bi-monthly. The party's press also includes the bulletin Emigração (Emigration), targeted at the large Portuguese diaspora, and the magazine Portugal e a UE (Portugal and the EU), directed by the party's members elected in the European Parliament, which presents information related to the European politics and to the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. Both Avante! and O Militante are sold in the party's offices to the members. Buying Avante! is considered one of the members' duties. Avante! is also sold among other newspapers in many news stands around the country.

Avante! was illegally printed and distributed from February 1931 until May 1974.[84] Many times, the newspaper distribution suffered breakdowns due to the suppression by the political police of party members who helped to distribute the newspaper, or due to the destruction of the clandestine printing offices. Successfully evading official censorship, Avante! was one of the very few Portuguese newspapers that freely reported on events like World War II, the Colonial War in Africa or massive workers' strikes and waves of student protest against the dictatorship. Avante! continues to be printed after more than three decades of democracy, and has now a full online edition. The Avante! Festival was named after the newspaper.

During the campaign for the Portuguese legislative election of 2005, the party created a radio broadcast on its website and also a digital forum, being the first Portuguese party to use the internet actively in an electoral campaign. After the last Congress, the statutes were changed and the party now considers its website as another official media and it is regularly updated. The campaign radio broadcast evolved into an online radio station named Comunic. It broadcasts thematic interviews with party's members, music and propaganda.

Usually, the party's largest political campaigns and struggles are supported by the distribution of a massive number of leaflets and advertising posters in hot spots like train stations, factories, universities, main streets, and avenues or markets. The free television spots that the Portuguese law grants to the parties, either in the campaign time or out of it, are used by PCP to promote initiatives and political campaigns.

The party also owns a publishing company, Edições Avante! (Avante! Editions), that publishes and sells several books related to the party's history or to Marxism. Classics of Marxism–Leninism, such as The Communist Manifesto, Capital, On the Jewish Question, or What is to be Done?, several books of Portuguese authors on the history of the party and the resistance, official documents like the program or the statutes, books from foreign authors, like Ten Days that Shook the World and several other works are present in the Avante! Edition's catalog.[85]

## Youth organization

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Main article: Portuguese Communist Youth

The youth organization of PCP is the Portuguese Communist Youth (Portuguese: Juventude Comunista Portuguesa), and was founded on 10 November 1979, after the unification of the Communist Students League and the Young Communist League. The Portuguese Communist Youth is a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, a youth non-governmental organization that congregates several left-wing youth organizations from all the continents. The WFDY holds an international event, named World Festival of Youth and Students, in which the Portuguese Communist Youth uses to participate.

The youth wing follows a structure similar to the Party's, also based on the Leninist principle of democratic centralism, and both organizations maintain a cooperative relationship. JCP is, however, an independent organization.

Mainly composed by students and some working-class young people, the Portuguese Communist Youth has, as its main political concerns, such issues as the promotion of a free and public education for all ages, employment, peace, and housing. It also promotes international solidarity brigades for countries like Cuba, Palestine, or Venezuela, alone or with other European Communist youth organizations like KNE or SDAJ. It has its main organizational strength among high-school and university students, with a strong presence among the Students' unions.

## Avante! Festival

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Main article: Avante! Festival

Picture of the main stage of Avante Festival in 2001

Every year, in the first weekend of September, the party holds a festival called the Avante! Festival (Portuguese: Festa do Avante!). After taking place in different locations around Lisbon, like the Lisbon International Fair, Ajuda, or Loures, it is now held in Amora, a city near Seixal, on land bought by the Party after a massive fundraising campaign in the early 1990s. The Party considered this campaign to be the only way to avoid the boycott organized by the owners of the previous festival grounds, a boycott that ultimately resulted in the Festival not being held in 1987.

The festival attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors. The events themselves consist of a three-day festival of music, with hundreds of Portuguese and international bands and artists across five different stages, ethnography, gastronomy, debates, a books and music fair, theatre (Avanteatro), cinema (Cineavante) and sporting events. Several foreign communist parties also participate.[86]

Famous artists,[87] communist and non-communist, Portuguese and non-Portuguese, have performed at the Festival, including Chico Buarque, Baden Powell, Ivan Lins, Zeca Afonso, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Holly Near, Johnny Clegg, Charlie Haden, Judy Collins, Richie Havens, Tom Paxton, Ska-P, The Soviet Circus Company, the Kuban Cossack Choir, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Band, Hevia, Brigada Victor Jara, Adriano Correia de Oliveira, Carlos Paredes, Jorge Palma, Manoel de Oliveira, Babylon Circus, and many others.

The preparation of the party begins right after the end of the previous festival. Hundreds of the Party's members and friends, mostly young people, volunteer.

## See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Portuguese Communist Party.

* Communism portal
* Portugal portal

* Politics of Portugal
* List of political parties in Portugal
* Carnation Revolution
* Unitary Democratic Coalition
* Avante!
* Armed Revolutionary Action

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## Bibliography

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### Academic sources

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* Madeira, João (2011). "O Partido Comunista Português e a Guerra Fria: "sectarismo", "desvio de direita", "Rumo à vitória" (1949-1965)" (PDF). NOVA University Lisbon. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 August 2020.

## Further reading

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* Carlos Cunha, "Nationalist or Internationalist? The Portuguese Communist Party's Autonomy and the Communist International", in Tim Rees and Andrew Thorpe (eds.), International Communism and the Communist International, 1919-1943. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998.
* Carlos Cunha, The Portuguese Communist Party's Strategy for Power, 1921-1986. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.
* J. G. P. Quintela, Para a História do Movimento Comunista em Portugal: 1. A Construção do Partido (Primeiro Periodo 1919-1929). [Towards a History of the Communist Movement in Portugal: 1. Construction of the Party (First Period, 1919-1929).] Oporto: Afrontamento, 1976.

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