On the occasion of the 97th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB), which was completed on March 25, 2019, we reproduce (in adapted form) an article that was published in Issue 207 of AND (1st half of April 2018).
On March 25, 2019, 97 years of the founding of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB) is completed. Inspired by the Great Socialist October Revolution and the inauguration of a New Age of Humanity - the era of the world proletarian revolution - the Brazilian proletariat set out on the arduous and prestigious task of establishing its revolutionary party, the Communist Party.
This was how Astrojildo Pereira, Hermogênio da Silva Fernandes, Manoel Cendón, Joaquim Barbosa, Luis Peres, José Elias da Silva, Abílio de Nequete, Cristiano Cordeiro and João da Costa Pimenta - representing 73 communists scattered in various corners of the country – on March 1922, in the city of Niterói (RJ), founded the Communist Party - Brazilian Section of the Communist International.
Throughout its history, several of its heroic deeds stand out. Among them, the Armed People`s Uprise of 1935, which was the first attempt of the Party to assault the heavens, 13 years after its foundation. Another milestone was the split with the revisionist group of Prestes and the reconstruction of the Communist Party of Brazil (with the acronym PCdoB) in 1962, when it truly constituted itself as a Marxist-Leninist party, 40 years after its founding. And finally, the glorious Araguaia Guerrilla, when it approached to Mao Tsetung thought, proposes itself to the task of initiating the People's War in Brazil.
Founders of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB) in 1922
With the defeat of the Araguaia Guerrilla and the brutal Lapa Massacre, in which the leaders Pedro Pomar, Ângelo Arroyo and João Batista Drummond were assassinated, the left in the leadership of the Party suffered heavy losses, creating the situation for the abandonment of the party revolutionary line of Protracted People`s War. João Amazonas and his revisionist clique, sabotaging the fair evaluation of the Araguaia experience, led the coup to liquidate the Communist Party of Brazil as a revolutionary party, giving rise to yet another revisionist organization, under the acronym PCdoB.
Today, the different acronyms PCdoB, PCBrazilian, PCR, etc., unite with the same program of revisionist and electoral character. According to the publications of the Nucleus of Studies of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (NEMLM) sent to us, the "Communist Party of Brazil develops for 20 years in the underground, led by its Red Fraction, through hard two lines struggle, the process of its reconstitution as true and authentic Marxist-Leninist-Maoist communist party, militarized communist party. This period corresponds to the second phase of the third stage of its history, founded by the hard struggles against opportunist lines of right and left, mainly of revisionist right in its entire history and in the assimilation and theoretical and practical embodyment of the third, new and superior stage of the development of Marxism, Maoism. "
As the NEMLM characterizes, "this third stage of its history, with the reconstitution of the PCB and the complete victory over revisionism and all opportunism, its fourth stage as Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Communist Party of Brazil, with the unleashing of open struggle through the Protracted People's War for the Revolution of a New Democracy, uninterrupted to Socialism, serving the World Proletarian Revolution and in the direction of the shining Communism, will open. "
Translated from A Nova Democracia Website.
March 25: 97 years of the founding of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB)
On the occasion of the 97th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB), which was completed on March 25, 2019, we reproduce (in adapted form) an article that was published in Issue 207 of AND (1st half of April 2018).
On March 25, 2019, 97 years of the founding of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB) is completed. Inspired by the Great Socialist October Revolution and the inauguration of a New Age of Humanity - the era of the world proletarian revolution - the Brazilian proletariat set out on the arduous and prestigious task of establishing its revolutionary party, the Communist Party.
This was how Astrojildo Pereira, Hermogênio da Silva Fernandes, Manoel Cendón, Joaquim Barbosa, Luis Peres, José Elias da Silva, Abílio de Nequete, Cristiano Cordeiro and João da Costa Pimenta - representing 73 communists scattered in various corners of the country – on March 1922, in the city of Niterói (RJ), founded the Communist Party - Brazilian Section of the Communist International.
Throughout its history, several of its heroic deeds stand out. Among them, the Armed People`s Uprise of 1935, which was the first attempt of the Party to assault the heavens, 13 years after its foundation. Another milestone was the split with the revisionist group of Prestes and the reconstruction of the Communist Party of Brazil (with the acronym PCdoB) in 1962, when it truly constituted itself as a Marxist-Leninist party, 40 years after its founding. And finally, the glorious Araguaia Guerrilla, when it approached to Mao Tsetung thought, proposes itself to the task of initiating the People's War in Brazil.
Founders of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB) in 1922
With the defeat of the Araguaia Guerrilla and the brutal Lapa Massacre, in which the leaders Pedro Pomar, Ângelo Arroyo and João Batista Drummond were assassinated, the left in the leadership of the Party suffered heavy losses, creating the situation for the abandonment of the party revolutionary line of Protracted People`s War. João Amazonas and his revisionist clique, sabotaging the fair evaluation of the Araguaia experience, led the coup to liquidate the Communist Party of Brazil as a revolutionary party, giving rise to yet another revisionist organization, under the acronym PCdoB.
Today, the different acronyms PCdoB, PCBrazilian, PCR, etc., unite with the same program of revisionist and electoral character. According to the publications of the Nucleus of Studies of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (NEMLM) sent to us, the "Communist Party of Brazil develops for 20 years in the underground, led by its Red Fraction, through hard two lines struggle, the process of its reconstitution as true and authentic Marxist-Leninist-Maoist communist party, militarized communist party. This period corresponds to the second phase of the third stage of its history, founded by the hard struggles against opportunist lines of right and left, mainly of revisionist right in its entire history and in the assimilation and theoretical and practical embodyment of the third, new and superior stage of the development of Marxism, Maoism. "
As the NEMLM characterizes, "this third stage of its history, with the reconstitution of the PCB and the complete victory over revisionism and all opportunism, its fourth stage as Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Communist Party of Brazil, with the unleashing of open struggle through the Protracted People's War for the Revolution of a New Democracy, uninterrupted to Socialism, serving the World Proletarian Revolution and in the direction of the shining Communism, will open. "
