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Communist Party of Brazil

Communist Party of Brazil
Partido Comunista do Brasil
President Luciana de Oliveira Santos
Founded February 18, 1962 (1962-02-18)
Headquarters Brasília, Brazil
Newspaper Classe Operária
(Working Class)
Youth wing Socialist Youth Union (UJS)
Membership 391,951
Ideology Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism (historical)
Hoxhaism (historical)
Political position Far-left
National affiliation With the strength of the people
International affiliation Foro de São Paulo
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
International Communist Seminar
Colours Red and yellow
TSE Identification Number 65
Chamber of Deputies
11 / 513
Senate
1 / 81
Mayors
81 / 5,568
City Councillors
998 / 51,748
Governors
1 / 27
Website
www.pcdob.org.br

The Communist Party of Brazil (Portuguese: Partido Comunista do Brasil, PCdoB) is a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Brazil. It has national reach and deep penetration in the trade union and students 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 March 25, 1922. The current PCdoB was launched on February 18, 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 was 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.

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).


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