Antifascist United Front (Brazil)
| Abbreviation | FUA |
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| Formation | June 25, 1933 |
| Type | Broad front of democratic, progressive and left-wing parties and organizations |
| Purpose | To combat fascism, represented in Brazil by the Brazilian Integralist Action (AIB) |
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| Membership | Liga Comunista (LC, Communist League), Partido Socialista Brasileiro (PSB, Brazilian Socialist Party) and other minor left-wing organizations; occasional articulation with anarchists and the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB) |
Francesco Frola | President |
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The Frente Única Antifascista (FUA; United Antifascist Front) was a political organization founded on June 25, 1933, in the city of São Paulo to combat fascism, represented in Brazil by the Brazilian Integralist Action (AIB). The FUA was created on the initiative of militants from the Liga Comunista (LC, Communist League), the Partido Socialista Brasileiro (PSB, Brazilian Socialist Party), antifascist Italian immigrants and other minor left-wing organizations. Two important segments of the São Paulo left at the time, the anarchists and militants of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB), did not formally participate in the FUA but maintained contacts and coordinated with the front on some occasions.
The FUA, articulating with other sectors of the left, held a series of antifascist rallies and demonstrations, and its militants played an important role in the Battle of Praça da Sé. Until February 1934, the year the organization ceased its activities, the FUA published the newspaper O Homem Livre (The Free Man), considered the main antifascist propaganda vehicle of that period.
Throughout 1934, with the advance of fascism in Europe and the reformulation of the policies of the Communist International (Comintern), which pointed towards the formation of popular fronts, the FUA opened space for the formation of a broader front of progressive sectors, diluting the antifascist struggle in the more general struggle for reforms and against conservative forces. This process culminated in the formation of the Aliança Nacional Libertadora (ANL, National Liberating Alliance) in 1935.