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Hard questions for Left Bloc after a terrible parliamentary election

Left Bloc — 2025-05-29T08:52:35Z

National Board Resolution of the Left Bloc from 24 May 2025 regarding the results of the legislative elections of 18 May 2024.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Portugal

Europe in the Trump-Putin Axis Trap

Left Bloc — 2025-04-12T12:48:37Z

‘For the Left Bloc, there are various imperialisms and "none of them will have a progressive role because all act according to the interests of their capitalist elites". Therefore, "recognising this reality is vital in elaborating an internationalist proposal capable of offering a future to humanity and conceiving a democratic order of peoples."'

- Rearming Europe / Europe, Portugal, War drive/Anti-war movements

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

Left Bloc — 2021-04-25T20:21:21Z

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”.

- IV555 - April 2021 / Portugal, Covid-19 Pandemic

Portugal, Europe and the Left Bloc after the European elections

Left Bloc — 2014-06-27T13:56:09Z

This resolution was adopted by the political leadership of the Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc), Portugal on 1 June 2014. It was translated by Federico Fuentes for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. The original text is Portugal, a Europa e o Bloco depois
das eleiçÃµes Europeias
ResoluçÃ£o polÃticada Mesa Nacional - 1/6/2014.

- IV473 - June 2014 / Portugal

The demand of the people now has a goal: the resignation of the government

Left Bloc — 2012-10-04T19:29:37Z

Here we publish a Resolution of the National Board of the Left Bloc, 22 September 2012 passed unanimously.

- IV453 - October 2012 / Portugal, European Union

A programme against the debt tyranny

Left Bloc — 2012-07-16T08:00:54Z

1. In a previous resolution by the National Council, the proposals for a European response against speculation by the financial markets were defined. In these proposals a strategy for a partial pooling of the debt and to assure financing of the European economies was presented. Left Bloc maintains these guidelines. Spain's financial collapse and the constant threat over Italy clearly show that the European Union needs a financing mechanism independent from the financial markets, and this mechanism is the issuing of Eurobonds and having the ECB as the entity financing in the last resort the European states.

- IV450 - July 2012 / Portugal, Debt