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"Freedom is to live without precarity"

A counter-summit of resistance, challenge and solidarity

2021/04/23 - 4:34pm

Bloco de Esquerda promotes a Social Counter-Summit on the 6th and 7th of May, in the city of Porto, joining those who refuse to face this reality with the fatalism of the complacent and who have contributed to networks of resistance and solidarity against the crisis.

Left Bloc defends the waiving of patents on vaccines against Covid-19

2021/04/07 - 10:28am

Left Bloc presented a draft resolution in the Portuguese Parliament for the government to defend the waiver in the European Union and for the vaccine to be treated as “a public good with universal access”.

Social Summit 2021: to be social or not to be…

2021/04/07 - 10:25am

Marisa Matias and José Gusmão, MEPs for Left Bloc, are critical of the European Commission’s "unambitious" policies on social rights and of the follow-my-leader stance of the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council.

You are not welcome, Modi!

2021/04/07 - 10:21am

With the European Union-India summit soon to be held in the city of Porto, Left Bloc expresses its solidarity with the Indian population oppressed by Narendra Modi’s divisive and persecutory policies.

Cabo Delgado: the EU has not assumed its responsibility

2021/04/07 - 10:17am

Marisa Matias, MEP for Left Bloc, stresses that “perhaps the States would be freer to act” if there were no multinationals in the province of Cabo Delgado which dedicate themselves “to the extraction of natural resources in an absolutely predatory way”.

Social support is a crucial element of social justice

2021/04/07 - 10:13am

Catarina Martins, national coordinator of Left Bloc, highlighted that “once enacted, the laws on social support have to be applied”, besides guaranteeing “the support that has been legislated is already in force and it is important to ensure these benefits reach the people needing them”.

Catarina Martins, photo by Ana Mendes

Beyond fear

2021/04/05 - 5:30pm

Catarina Martins

“The left must assert that the response to the climate crisis, as well as the response to the pandemic crisis, requires European and international collaboration. What is clear is that the European treaties are the first obstacle to such cooperation”, writes Catarina Martins, Bloco de Esquerda’s Coordinator, in “Quistioni” the new magazine of the European Left.

Decriminalisation of assisted death, a long struggle of Left Bloc, is approved in the Portuguese Parliament

2021/02/19 - 11:26am

“With the vote that has just been taken, the Portuguese Parliament added dignity and respect to our democracy,” declared MP José Manuel Pureza. The bill was approved with 136 votes in favour of the Left Bloc, PAN, PEV, part of the PS and PSD, IL, and non-registered MPs.

The pandemic crisis cannot be an excuse for the lack of social support; it must be its biggest motivation

2021/02/19 - 11:21am

After a year of having to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, we can safely acknowledge that social support in Portugal has been clearly insufficient.

The Portuguese Presidential Elections are marked by the pandemic crisis and the aggressiveness of the ultra-right

2021/02/19 - 11:14am

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa surpassed the 50% barrier, which allows him to be re-elected on the first round. Marisa Matias, Left Bloc’s candidate for the presidential election, obtained 3.95% of the votes.

Left Bloc defends that all installed capacity in health services should be used, including in the private sector

2021/02/19 - 11:07am

Moisés Ferreira, Left Bloc’s MP, underlined that the Portuguese legislation enables health authorities to request the services they want, especially amid a pandemic crisis

Political Resolution of the National Bureau of the Left Bloc

2021/02/03 - 2:14pm

The National Bureau of the Left Bloc met on 30th January 2021, one week after the presidencial election.

Chile for democracy against repression

2021/01/11 - 5:48pm

Statement of the International Department of Bloco de Esquerda on the situation in Chile.

Marisa Matias is a candidate for the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic – a candidacy against fear

2020/10/27 - 4:43pm

This will be the 2^nd time Marisa Matias will run for President of the Republic, having obtained 10.12% of the votes in the 2016 presidential elections.

2021 Portuguese State Budget: Bloco de Esquerda will vote against the document

2020/10/27 - 4:37pm

Catarina Martins, Bloco de Esquerda’s Coordinator, said that Bloco de Esquerda has defined four priorities in response to the crisis in the 2021 State Budget’s debate, which have not been accommodated by the Socialist Party Government.

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