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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 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.
The PCdoB, which had chosen not to get involved in urban armed actions, was not affected by the repression and had better conditions to prepare and launch guerrilla warfare in the countryside. The Araguaia River region, in the south of Pará, was chosen by the party to start the armed struggle in the countryside; the PCdoB had militants living ...
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 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.
First Army troops to arrive in Araguaia, 1972. The idea of setting up a focus of rural guerrilla that could function as a pole of attraction for all elements dissatisfied with the Brazilian military dictatorship in order to compensate for the smashing of urban opposition movements had been long nurtured among the Brazilian Left since 1964, but it was left to the PCdoB to be the only political ...
In 1966 the Communist Party of Brazil decided that urban guerrilla warfare tactics were necessary to establish a Communist regime in Brazil. [3] In 1967 Grabois started recruiting guerilla combatants in Pará [ 1 ] and after a series of clashes with government forces, Grabois had disappeared and later was revealed to have been killed in 1973. [ 4 ]
Some of its top leaders, dissatisfied with the new Soviet line, quit the PCB and formed a new party, Communist Party of Brazil (Partido Comunista do Brasil – PCdoB) in 1962. In the mid-1960s the U.S. State Department estimated the number of organized communists in Brazil to around 31,000.
João Amazonas de Souza Pedros (January 1, 1912 – May 27, 2002) was a Brazilian Marxist theoretician, revolutionary, guerrilla member and leader of the Communist Party of Brazil. He was born on January 1, 1912, in the Paraense capital, Belém, and died in São Paulo on May 27, 2002. Amazonas was national president of PCdoB, from 1962 to 2001.
Unhappy with the Communist Party of Brazil's (PCdoB) practices in waging a guerrilla war in a rural area of northern Brazil, a group of PCdoB members left the party and formed the Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR) in 1966, active in the capitals and sugar cane plantations of the states of Alagoas, Pernambuco, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte. [2]