Secretariado Sul Americano e Partido Comunista do Brasil (1926-1930)

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the views of the South American Secretariat (SSA), organ of the Communist International (IC), based in Argentina, and the relations between this agency and the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB). This research was conducted by studying the texts of the magazine La Correspondencia Sudamericana, the official magazine of the SSA, published between 1926 and 1930. From this study we identified the concepts of SSA with respect to parliamentary activities, trade unions, revolutionary propaganda and agitation, and in relation to the tactics of the proletarian united front. We analyzed the dominance exercised by the SSA in relation to the PCB, as well as the reformulation and radicalization that run through this agency between 1928 and 1930. The crisis of SSA in 1927 is to be linked directly to the crises do Communist Party of Argentina and the actions of the editor of La Correspondencia Sudamericana and councilman of Buenos Aires, Fernando José Penelón. It also analyzes readings taken by the Communists on the Brazilian national reality, the issues surrounding the passing of the scoundrel who put the PCB into lawlessness in mid-1927, the party attempting to engage in a rapprochement with the radicalized petty bourgeoisie, the electoral and parliamentary activity of the BOC, and the overlap between it and the PCB. It also investigates the process of assimilation by the Brazilian Communist radical political line of IC and the expectation of the IC and the PCB opposite the glimpse of the bourgeois democratic revolution in Brazil in late 1920, which provide, internally, the emergence of ?obreirismo? (?workerism?) in PCB.