Communist Party of Brazil - From 1987 To 1995 Socialist Program

From 1987 To 1995 Socialist Program

The social and economic crisis that followed the Cruzado Plan (1987) led PCdoB to break the PMDB. In its place, he sought an ever larger with the PT and the PSB. In 1988, trade unionists PCdoB broke with the General Workers Central and formed the current Class Union, which then became part of the CUT, currently connected to the CTB (see Recent Events).

In 1989, along with the PSB, PCdoB supported the candidacy of Lula to the presidency. The alliance with the PT for the presidential elections was repeated in the elections of 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006, achieving success in the last two, with the vice president of the plate, the political and textile businessman José Alencar, indicated by PL.

Along with the PT, PCdoB also made strong opposition to the government of Fernando Collor. PCdoB defended in 1991 defends his removal, which occurs in September 1992 with large student demonstrations and participation by the UJS ahead along the UBEs and UNE. At that time, they noted the personal leadership of Lindberg Farias, then president of the UNE and militant PCdoB.

Alongside the adoption of a more radical stance internally, PCdoB began to lose its external references. In 1990, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, also the Albanian regime collapsed and with it the Stalinism was in crisis. The main impact of these changes was the decision of PCdoB at its 8th Congress in 1992 with the slogan Vive Socialism, Stalin fails to mention one of the "classics" of Marxism.

That decision opened the party ideologically and allowed the incorporation of new militants. PCdoB resumed ties with Cuba. In 1995 at its 8th conference, the Socialist party adopted its Programme. Several Communist intellectuals previously attached to the PCB (as Nelson Werneck Sodré and Edgard Carone) approached the PCdoB.

During this period, with the fall of the socialist camp in Eastern Europe, PCdoB now regards the duration of a phase of "strategic defensive", i.e. a period of retraction of socialist ideas and the need for accumulation of forces to advance a stage of the offensive.