Brazilian Communist Party

Brazilian Communist Party
Partido Comunista Brasileiro
AbbreviationPCB
General SecretaryEdmilson Costa
Founded25 March 1922; 102 years ago (1922-03-25)
Registered9 May 1996; 28 years ago (1996-05-09)
HeadquartersRua das Marrecas, 27, 3º andar, Centro
Rio de Janeiro
NewspaperO Poder Popular
Think tankFundação Dinarco Reis
Youth wingUnião da Juventude Comunista
Women's wingColetivo Feminista Classista Ana Montenegro
Black wingColetivo Negro Minervino de Oliveira
LGBT wingColetivo LGBT Comunista
Membership12,523[1]
Ideology
Political positionFar-left[4][5]
Regional affiliationSão Paulo Forum
International affiliationIMCWP
Colours  Red
  Yellow
Anthem"A Internacional"[6]
TSE Identification Number21
Website
pcb.org.br

The Brazilian Communist Party (Portuguese: Partido Comunista Brasileiro), originally the Communist Party of Brazil (Partido Comunista do Brasil),[7] is a communist party in Brazil, founded on 25 March 1922. Arguably the oldest active political party in Brazil, it played an important role in the country's 20th-century history despite the relatively small number of members.[8] A factional dispute led to the formation of PCdoB (Communist Party of Brazil) in the 1960s, though both communist parties were united in opposition to the Brazilian military government that ruled from 1964 to 1985. But with the fall of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism circa 1990, the party lost power and international support. An internal coup in 1992 divided the party and formed a new party, called Popular Socialist Party, using the former identification number of the PCB, 23. That party has since moved towards the centre and now goes by the name Cidadania.

The youth organization of the PCB is the Communist Youth Union and is a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth.

  1. ^ "Eleitores filiados". inter04.tse.jus.br. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Manual de Organização Partidária - Comitê Central do Partido Comunista Brasileiro" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Resoluções do XIV Congresso do PCB - A Estratégia e a Tática da Revolução Socialista no Brasil" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Nanicos de extrema esquerda desistem de candidaturas próprias e fazem as pazes com o PT". 10 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Manual de Organização Partidária: Comitê Central do Partido Comunista Brasileiro" (PDF).
  6. ^ "Estatuto do Partido Comunista Brasileiro". 3 August 2018. Archived from the original on 15 February 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  7. ^ "URC: "O desenvolvimento da luta revolucionária exige uma nova postura dos comunistas"". 9 August 2013.
  8. ^ "John Newsinger: The Brazilian Communist Party (March 1975)". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 10 August 2021.