Partido Comunista Brasileiro
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| Secretary General | Edmilson Costa (since 2016) |
| founding | March 25, 1922 |
| Headquarters | Rio de Janeiro |
| Colours) | Red Yellow |
| Number of members | 12,757 (April 2020) |
| International connections | International meeting of communist and workers' parties |
| Website | pcb.org.br |
The Partido Comunista Brasileiro ( PCB , German Brazilian Communist Party ) is a Brazilian communist political party .
The party emerged from the Partido Comunista do Brasil , founded on March 25, 1922 , which led to its founding the abbreviation PCB. Following the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ), disagreements arose within the party about the correct course. While the part, which from then on referred to itself as Partido Comunista Brasileiro and was to be abbreviated as PCB, supported the path of de-Stalinization taken by the CPSU and thus pursued a legalistic approach, this was from the other part, which continued the name Partido Comunista do Brasil, however for this the acronym PCdoB introduced, criticized as reformism . While the PCdoB is currently supporting the government of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), the PCB is pursuing an oppositional course and sometimes competes in elections with the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) and the Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado (PSTU), two other socialist, partly Trotskyist parties, as Frente da Esquerda (Left Front). This electoral alliance achieved up to almost 7% in various national elections for the Congress, the Senate and the Presidency (result of the presidential candidate Heloísa Helena in the 2006 elections ).
Web links
- PCB website (Brazilian Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ PCB: Edmilson Costa Substitui Ivan Pinheiro na Secretaria Geral do pcb. In: org.br. October 15, 2016, accessed May 10, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Estatísticas do eleitorado - Eleitores filiados. In: Database of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral. Tribunal Superior Eleitoral , accessed May 10, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese, database query).