Communist Party of Brazil
Communist Party of Brazil Partido Comunista do Brasil | |
|---|---|
| President | Luciana de Oliveira Santos |
| Founded | 25 March 1922 (official) 18 February 1962 (split from PCB) |
| Registered | 23 June 1988 |
| Legalised | 10 May 1985 |
| Banned | 27 October 1965 |
| Split from | Brazilian Communist Party |
| Headquarters | Brasília, Brazil |
| Newspaper | Classe Operária |
| Youth wing | Socialist Youth Union |
| Membership (2024) | 391,474 |
| Ideology | Communism (Brazilian) Marxism–Leninism Historical: Maoism Hoxhaism |
| Political position | Centre-left to left-wing Historical: Far-left |
| National affiliation | Brazil of Hope |
| Regional affiliation | São Paulo Forum |
| International affiliation | IMCWP |
| Colours | Red Yellow |
| TSE Identification Number | 65 |
| Chamber of Deputies | 7 / 513 |
| Federal Senate | 0 / 81 |
| Governorships | 0 / 27 |
| Mayors | 19 / 5,569 |
| City Councillors | 354 / 58,026 |
| Party flag | |
| Website | |
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^ A: The PCdoB is a centre-left to left-wing developmentalist party, but was described as "far-left" in some news outlets because it still de jure supports Marxist–Leninist theory. | |
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. 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, initially having a Maoist guideline, which would later substitute with Hoxhaism in 1978. 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).
After the Redemocratization in Brazil, the PCdoB was legalized and adopted a more moderate leftist stance. Since 1989, the party 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.
In 2018, after falling to get enough votes to break through the electoral threshold and to keep receiving funds, the Free Fatherland Party (PPL) voted to merge into PCdoB.
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).