Communist Party of Brazil

Communist Party of Brazil
Partido Comunista do Brasil
PresidentLuciana de Oliveira Santos
Founded25 March 1922; 102 years ago (1922-03-25) (official)[1]
18 February 1962 (1962-02-18) (split from PCB)
Registered23 June 1988 (1988-06-23)
Legalised10 May 1985; 39 years ago (1985-05-10)[a]
Banned27 October 1965 (1965-10-27)[b]
Split fromBrazilian Communist Party
HeadquartersBrasília, Brazil[4][5]
NewspaperClasse Operária
Youth wingSocialist Youth Union
Membership (2024)391,142[6]
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism[4]
Historical:
Maoism
Hoxhaism[7]
Political positionLeft-wing[8][9] to far-left[10][11]
National affiliationBrazil of Hope
Regional affiliationSão Paulo Forum
International affiliationIMCWP
Colours  Red
  Yellow
TSE Identification Number65
Chamber of Deputies
6 / 513
Federal Senate
0 / 81
Governorships
0 / 27
Mayors
81 / 5,570
City Councillors
998 / 51,748
Party flag
Website
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The Communist Party of Brazil (Portuguese: Partido Comunista do Brasil, PCdoB) is a political party in Brazil. The PCdoB officially adheres to Marxist–Leninist theory.[4] It has national reach and deep penetration in the trade union and student movements.

PCdoB shares the disputed title of "oldest political party in Brazil" with the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). The predecessor of both parties was the Brazilian Section of the Communist International, founded on 25 March 1922. The current PCdoB was launched on 18 February 1962, in the aftermath of the Sino-Soviet split. Outlawed after the 1964 coup d'état, PCdoB supported the armed struggle against the regime before its legalization in 1988. Its most famous action in the period was the Araguaia guerrilla (1966–1974). Since 1989, PCdoB has been allied to the Workers' Party (PT) at the federal level, and, as such, it participated in the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva administration and joined the "With the strength of the people" coalition, which elected his successor, Dilma Rousseff. In 2018, the party again allied with PT and the candidacy of Fernando Haddad. Haddad's running mate was PCdoB member Manuela d'Ávila. In 2022 it joined the Brazil of Hope coalition with the PT and the Green Party.

PCdoB publishes the newspaper Working Class (Classe Operária) as well as the magazine Principles (Princípios), and is a member of the Foro de São Paulo. Its youth wing is the Union of the Socialist Youth (União da Juventude Socialista, UJS), launched in 1984, while its trade union wing is the Central of the Workers of Brazil (Central dos Trabalhadores e Trabalhadoras do Brasil, CTB), founded in 2007 as a dissidence from the Unified Workers' Central (Central Única dos Trabalhadores, CUT).

  1. ^ [1] Apresentação do Partido
  2. ^ "Communists return to legality". Memorial da Democracia (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Ato Institucional N°2, de 27 de outubro de 1965". Palácio do Planalto (in Portuguese). 27 October 1965. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  4. ^ a b c TSE Archived 16 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine Estatuto do Partido Comunista do Brasil
  5. ^ TSE Archived 15 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine Partidos – Partidos políticos – PCdoB
  6. ^ https://sig.tse.jus.br/ords/dwapr/r/seai/sig-eleicao-filiados/home?p0_partido=PCDOB&session=11918371074694 [bare URL]
  7. ^ "As diferenças entre PCB e PCdoB". 26 March 2009. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  8. ^ Fernandes, Sabrina (2019). Sintomas mórbidos : a encruzilhada da esquerda Brasileira. São Paulo. OCLC 1229932805. Embora ambas as partes reivindiquem a propriedade da história do Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCB) original, fundado em 1922, é a virada gradual do PCdoB de um partido comunista para o aceite de práticas social-democratas, e até uma política de apreço da burguesia nacional, que atualmente define sua localização no espectro político
    Enquanto os documentos da recente era do PCdoB mantêm uma lealdade às suas raízes marxista-leninistas, eu argumento, contrariamente à visão geral de Daniel Aarão Reis, que esses documentos foram concebidos para coesão partidária em relação às suas raízes e não correspondem às práticas políticas que predominaram no PCdoB desde o período de democratização no Brasil.
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  9. ^ Fernandes, Sabrina (2019). Sintomas mórbidos : a encruzilhada da esquerda Brasileira. São Paulo: Autonomia Literária. pp. 128–157. OCLC 1229932805.
  10. ^ "Brazil's Bolsonaro faces probe after hospitals ran out of oxygen". Al Jazeera. 5 February 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  11. ^ Brito, Ricardo (5 February 2022). "Brazil's top prosecutor probes Bolsonaro over Manaus COVID-19 outbreak". Reuters. Retrieved 31 August 2022.


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