Brazilian Communist Party

Brazilian Communist Party Partido Comunista Brasileiro
General Secretary	Edmilson Costa
Founded	1922
Headquarters	Rua das Marrecas, 27, 3º andar, Centro Rio de Janeiro
Youth wing	Young Communist Union
Membership	14,824
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	São Paulo Forum International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP)
Colours	Red, yellow
TSE Identification Number	21
Seats in City Councils	1 / 56,810
Website
http://pcb.org.br/
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The Brazilian Communist Party (Portuguese: Partido Comunista Brasileiro, originally Partido Comunista do Brasil [Communist Party of Brazil] until 1958) is the oldest political party still active in Brazil, founded in 1922. It played an important role in the country's 20th-century history. It was one of the biggest parties in the country, maintaining, with PCdoB (Communist Party of Brazil), a unified resistance against the dictatorship, but with the fall of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism, the party lost power, and an internal coup in 1992 divided the party and formed a new party, called Socialist People's Party, using the former identification number of the PCB, 23.

The youth wing of PCB is known as Young Communist Union.

The Brazilian Communist Party (in Portuguese, Partido Comunista Brasileiro), abbreviated as the PCB, was founded on March 25, 1922 in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. On that day, nine representatives of communist groups from the cities of São Paulo, Santos, Cruzeiro, Porto Alegre, Recife, Niterói, Juiz de Fora and Rio de Janeiro met and approved the party's statutes and the twenty-one conditions for entering the Communist International, though the PCB was not recognized by the Comintern in its first years due to its eclectic ideological roots. The meeting ended with all seventy-three members of the party singing L'Internationale (quietly, to avoid being overheard).

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