Communist League (Brazil)

Communist League

Liga Comunista
Communist League Liga Comunista
Leader	Mario Pedrosa
Founded	January 1931
Dissolved	May 1, 1934
Split from	Brazilian Communist Party
Succeeded by	Internationalist Communist League
Ideology	Trotskyism
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	Left Opposition
	Politics of Brazil; Political parties; Elections;

The Communist League (Portuguese: Liga Comunista) was a grouping of the Left Opposition in Brazil, formed in 1931, operating within the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) and which gave rise, in 1934, to the Internationalist Communist League, an organization formed by Mario Pedrosa, Lívio Xavier, Fúlvio Abramo, Aristides Lobo, Benjamin Péret, Rodolfo Coutinho, Wenceslau Escobar Azambuja, among other PCB activists and union members such as Joaquim Barbosa (PCB secretary for union affairs), João Costa Pimenta (trade union veteran, grandfather of Rui Costa Pimenta, who in the future would be leader of the Workers' Cause Party, Leonel Pessoa (former cadet, expelled from the Army for participating in the Vaccine Revolt in 1904, who at the time worked as a graphic worker), João Dalla Dea (graphic worker).^[1]

History

As

International Left Opposition. A few years later, on May 1, 1934, during the Labor Day rally, held in the city of São Paulo, they then announced their transformation into the (Portuguese: Liga Comunista Internacionalista, LCI), definitively breaking away from the PCB, and starting to work for the formation of the Fourth International in Brazil.^[3]

References

^ Manolo (10 November 2009). "Mário Pedrosa político (1): das origens ao Grupo Comunista Lenine (1901-1929)". Passa Palavra. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
OCLC 895960656
.

^ Castro, Ricardo Figueiredo de (May 2013). "Mário Pedrosa, Lívio Xavier e as origens do marxismo no Brasil" (PDF). Marxismo21 (in Portuguese): 4. Retrieved 17 August 2021.

Bibliography

Castro, Ricardo Figueiredo de (1993). A Oposição de Esquerda brasileira (1928-1934) : teoria e práxis (
Universidade Federal Fluminense
.

Marques Neto, Jose Castilho (1993). Solidão Revolucionária. Mário Pedrosa e as origens do trotskismo no Brasil.
OCLC 683745582
.

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[1] Manolo (10 November 2009). "Mário Pedrosa político (1): das origens ao Grupo Comunista Lenine (1901-1929)". Passa Palavra. Retrieved 1 January 2020.

[2] OCLC 895960656
.

[3] Castro, Ricardo Figueiredo de (May 2013). "Mário Pedrosa, Lívio Xavier e as origens do marxismo no Brasil" (PDF). Marxismo21 (in Portuguese): 4. Retrieved 17 August 2021.

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