Communist Party of Brazil - The Abandonment of Maoism (1976-1979)

The Abandonment of Maoism (1976-1979)

Since the late 1960s, the Marxist-Leninist Popular Action (APML), a group derived from the Catholic left, had adopted the Maoist ideology and approached the PCdoB. Merging the two groups was made in 1975, after the end of armed struggle. PCdoB also attracted graduates from Pcbr and MR-8.

On December 16, 1976, the DOI-Codi-SP invades a house on the street Pius XI, São Paulo, killing at local orchard and Angelo Pedro Arroyo, kills John the Baptist Drumond torture prisoners and keeps up Amnesty Wladimir Pomar (son of Pedro), Aldo Arantes, Haroldo Lima, Elza Moneratt (both graduates of the AP), episode known as the Massacre and Slaughter of Lapa. In a climate where the opposition is beginning to gain strength, the news media, crime, strikes and moves within and outside Brazil. The direction of the party, hit hard, by Amnesty works with a core base in exile. Years later, it was discovered that the operation had the help of an informer arrested that year, the head of Manuel Jover PCdoB Teles (ex CC member of the PCB and former Pcbr), who was expelled from the party in 1983.

Shorn of its main frame, PCdoB began to regroup with staff from the PA leadership and staff of John Amazonas, who with Arruda Diogenes were the last remnants of the group that rebuilt the party in 1943 at the Conference Mantiqueira in full New State and in 1962. Arruda's death (in 1979) left as Amazon's top leadership PCdoB until his death.

The failure of rural guerrilla and the new policy adopted by China since Mao's death in 1976 led PCdoB to break completely with Maoism. In 1978, the party followed Enver Hoxha in his criticism of Chinese leaders and now considers Albania as the only socialist country, provided that the last bastion of Stalinism.

During this period, an internal division of PCdoB led to the Revolutionary Communist Party (PRC), led by Jose Genoino and Genro, and who later would join the Workers Party (PT), next to Red Wing.