Communist Party of Brazil - The Path To Legalization Party (1979-1987)

The Path To Legalization Party (1979-1987)

The adoption of the line did not mean the Albanian political radicalization of the PCdoB. In 1978, all had left institutional action through the MDB, the moderate opposition to the military government, PCdoB resumes its parliamentary area and elected its first MPs in the underground.

In 1979, with the opening policy and the granting of Amnesty, PCdoB found a favorable environment for their penetration of the unions and student organizations. Amazon John has returned from exile in 1979, and Diogenes Arruda dies of heart attack in the car on the way to a political act. The rebuilding of UNE (1979), with Aldo Rebelo marked the beginning of the hegemony of the party in university entity (keeping ever since, except for the biennium 1987-1988). In 1984, PCdoB founded the Union of Socialist Youth (UJS), its youth wing.

In 1980, Prestes breaks with the PCB to defend "the reorganization of the communist movement of the Communist Party" in the famous Letter to the Communists. Abandoned to their fate in old age will depend on friends like Oscar Niemeyer to survive and die affiliated with PDT.

In unionism, PCdoB initially adopted a policy of alliance with trade unionists linked to the PCB, adhering to CONCLAT in 1983, which included moderate and non-Marxists. Thus, the party opposed to the CUT (trade union arm of the PT). In 1984, PCdoB integrated to the movement of the Direct Elections Now (formed by all opposition parties), and the following year with the defeat of the amendment Dante de Oliveira, search Tancredo Neves trying to convince him to engage in candidate Electoral College, which coincided with the PCB and MR8, application decisive for the democratization and legalization of leftist parties in 1985. The PT is already legalized in 1980. In elections to the Constituent Assembly of 1986, PCdoB elected six deputies, including Haroldo Lima, Aldo Arantes. Of these, three were originally elected by the legend of the PMDB, with which he remained an ally, part of the base of support from the government of Jose Sarney.