Portuguese Communist Party

I mean, I think, and it's funny, but that is something that the Portuguese would say as well.

I should have said, of course, that I was at an event organized by what we call the PCP, but they call it PCP, but the Portuguese Communist Party.

And they had an event in Porto last week, which I attended for proper wages to deal with the housing crisis and for peace and anti-militarization.

And it was an absolutely powerful event.

The proposal abolishes the 2% cap on rent increases for new contracts and makes evictions easier.

The Socialist Party, PS, the Portuguese Communist Party, PCP, and the Left Bloc, BE, voted against the law, a stance that can be characterized as hypocritical and cynical in light of their political record.

It was during the so-called Geringonça, the parliamentary arrangement that allowed the PS to govern as a minority between 2015 and 2019, with the support of the BE and the PCP, that housing prices began their steep rise amid growing property speculation, while precarious employment and low wages persisted.

The PS remained committed to the European Union's austerity policies and the defense of private profitability, while the BE and the PCP sustained the government in Parliament on the grounds that they could pressure it into adopting policies more favorable to workers.

Political parties that had been banned for nearly half a century suddenly reemerged from the shadows.

The Portuguese Communist Party, PCP, for example, had operated in secrecy for decades, its members often facing imprisonment or worse.

With the revolution, they came out into the open, their influence and organization making them a powerful force.

New parties from the left to the right also began to form, all vying for the hearts and minds of the newly liberated electorate.

The political struggle was not just happening in the halls of government; it was happening on the streets.

Factory workers began to seize control of their workplaces, and landless peasants occupied large estates in the south of the country, turning them into collective farms.

The Portuguese Communist Party, PCP, which had been highly organized and disciplined for decades in its underground existence, was particularly effective at mobilizing these movements.

They had the support of influential figures within the MFA, most notably Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves, a left-leaning officer who believed in a more radical restructuring of Portuguese society.