Actual Existing Communist - actually organized in a marxist leninist party in Brazil (PCB)
As an actual militant of the Brazilian Communist Party's youth, the Communist Youth Union, (UJC):
The situation is: the central committee that held on from the original coup in the party in 1992, despite actually holding onto the name, were a bunch of fucking revisionists for the most part (the PCB has a tradition of revisionism/reformism dating back to 1958) As new generation came in after 2013 to the communist youth, we got actually relevant again and the people doing the ground work actually learned shit for real, so in the last party congress (XVI, 2021) the CC started to feel threathened and started arbitrary expulsions and such, this culminated in an accord to keep most of the CC unchanged, get some dissidence in and stop the arbitrary purges. The actual party resolutions reflect more this new generation's work, but the majority of the CC did not change hands. So, 2023 rolls around and the CC majority starts violating resolutions (namely participating in a Pro-Russia "anti-imperialist" platform that houses many reactionary parties such as CPGB-ML https://wap21.org/). They do this in secret and do not inform the rest of the party, rest of CC finds out, threats against the ones trying to keep the party line start coming. Finally, the former secretary general (and oldest generation communist), Ivan Pinheiro actually releases to the public that even though the CC suspended participation in that platform, our secretary of international relations went to another meeting in Seoul (and a shit party's congress). So things go public and the outright struggle against the CC starts, mass expulsions ensue and actual communists start organizing a way to fight back and calling for a party congress, more arbitrary shit ensues.
A lot of old stuff comes to light, youth national committee is effectively dissolved by the CC, we just don't recognize it and keep on working.
Here's the national committee of the communist youth statement in english: https://medium.com/@guilhermestefano_24542/political-statement-from-the-national-coordination-of-the-uni%C3%A3o-da-juventude-comunista-communist-158035d27657
Just for reference, in my state the entire communist youth and two party cells were purged. The State Committee that did this has covered for rapists and sexual harassers (and is about to bring a sexual harasser that was part of it that left back in)
The youth is like 80% minimum on board with a new party congress to solve this shit (and at this point, a new name for the party pretty much). The percentage is only going to go up because we're fucking right and are going to expose them. Has been real shit to learn some "comrades" were just shit stains all along tho
TL;DR: petit-bourgeois revisionists can't stand to lose the ideological struggle, kick out the party from the name.
Edit: oh and by the way here's the manifesto in defence of the Revolutionary Reconstruction (name of the period since the near dissipation of the party due to long term revisionism from '92-present, the CC wants to say we are already done reconstructing) https://emdefesadocomunismo.com.br/manifesto-em-defesa-da-reconstrucao-revolucionaria-do-pcb/
You can find the actual debate tribune in that website too, to see what the actual communists are thinking. We're dead set on making this congress happen with our without the electoral registration in our hands
Also FYI: the youth is way ahead of the party, because we had relative autonomy from the bastards
My Party's Central Committee just practically expelled the entire communist youth after expelling any dissidence from itself
They expelled 80% of the national committee of the communist youth, and in at least two states (mine included) dissolved the communist youth state committees and declared anyone calling for a new party congress expelled
Fun times
The good thing is since they never helped us with shit nothing's changed for the youth except they stole our shit (not funds tho afaik) https://ujc.org.br/nota-politica-da-cnujc-contra-a-intervencao-do-comite-central-na-juventude-em-defesa-do-xvii-congresso-extraordinario-e-da-reconstrucao-revolucionaria-do-pcb/
We're way better off without them, they kept every kind of abuse going in the party
I never at all in this thread proposed immediate protracted people's war, and I obviously don't.
I support organizing the workers and raising their class consciousness so when the time comes they take up arms
Fuck you
Mate I'm in the fucking Brazilian Communist Party, fuck orf
MST is NOT revolutionary at all, at least not since like two decades ago. They do good work but they're not a revolutionary org and remain glued to Lula's neoliberal ass
Fully agreed there and we're opposing this tailism with PSOL within PCB. The split currently going down is also about that. Have the manifesto of the fraction that defends the continuation of the revolutionary reconstruction of the party: https://emdefesadocomunismo.com.br/manifesto-em-defesa-da-reconstrucao-revolucionaria-do-pcb/
Unidade Popular is just hopeless unfortunately. They're not even a political party, just a front for a hoxhaist (as such dogmatic) one, PCR that is causing all sorts of trouble to actually organizing folks (fraud in union/student union elections, etc.)
We don't want to take arms and do guerrilla war right now for fucks sake
A communist party should strive first and foremost to organize the proletariat and create conditions for a revolution, you don't get that by supporting a neoliberal government filled with banker money in its pockets (often from global conglomerates like Santander)
You are complacent. Revolution cannot be build by neoliberal governments, only by organized worker's struggle, and these governments only demobilize the working class, any serious reading of Brazilian history will show you that Lula's government almost decimated union activity and other struggles
So what you're saying is it's either slow burn neoliberalism (which will only make fascism grow) or fast neoliberalism (+fascism) got ya
We build an alternative from the proletariat for the proletariat on the daily, not in fucking elections. We are communists, our goal is revolution!
Jesus fuck y'all. This is supposed to be a Communist board not social-liberal/socDem central.
You could just vote communist instead, there's a second round if things are this close for president/governor
Lula represents the national bourgeoisie of Brazil, but they are, in the global affairs, playing a revolutionary role by opposing the West,
The national bourgeoisie in the global south is subservient to imperialist capital and has no revolutionary potential, this is a read any serious communist party has. Also, he does not oppose liberalism at all, he is liberalism. Domestic policy is hardly better than Biden and he's not nearly as combative a Kirchner/Fernandez
that is something that cannot happen right now and it is better to strive for some economic stability.
That is a straight up anti-revolutionary reading but go off
Communists should unequivocally oppose Lula and push for radical and mass means, because he doesn't do any of that. In fact his purpose is to disorganize our class
Edit: ofc this doesn't mean letting the fascists defeat him either. Making the proletariat more class conscious will only make our life easier, and to do that we must stand against Lula's neoliberal policies
Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml For the love of god please stop praising Lula
You give Lula too much credit. He's cutting funding for stuff just the same right now, just doesn't have absolute shit foreign policy.
Also, Lula literally invaded Haiti on behalf of the UN in 2004, with forces only leaving in 2017.
As an example, Lula is currently launching initiatives for Public-Private Partnerships, which include fucking prisons. Would also like to note he signed the drug law that shot incarceration sky high in 2006 and remains to this day. Among plans for these prisons is "industrial prisons" aka prisoner slave labour
That was his job from the moment he was elected in 2002, he famously signed a letter promising ot to rip any national or international contracts during his tenure (and so he did) https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_ao_povo_brasileiro
Right now it's worse than before because the "normal" has shifted a fuckton to the right (thanks to his inaction and often funding of enemies). He's just continuing that shift right, his liberal economy ministry pushed for a budget reform that will gut public funding even more starting next year but his gov will just play dumb
Not anti-imperialist given domestix policy (aforementioned privatizations, etc). Just not an imperialist running dog like Boric
Gotta be all Palestinian liberation movements for me
PSUV is not a force for socialism, and as such they seek to destroy those who actually fight for it. In fact the PSUV is actively trying to dismantle the PCV https://pcb.org.br/portal2/30320
As a Brazilian organized communist,
Just no. Especially his latest moves. In fact last night he just pushed a provisional measure (a law that can take effect now, go to congress later) to legalize cassinos and other gambling establishments. Effective immediately too
He's not done any actual reforms, just means tested welfare programs. In fact he privatized a bunch of stuff in his first tenure. He also signed the drug laws that shot incarceration rates sky high (in fact a comrade was arrested for possesing weed and not released for over a year despite not being sentenced).
His job is making things seem "not all that bad" and keeping the forces of reaction well fed.
I'm not mad at you for not knowing, but as a Brazilian Communist I am extremely angry at the fact they misled you
Edit: I can go on and on and if y'all actually want me to. Don't "support" this enemy of our class in front of me again.
And yes, he's better than the "electorally viable" alternatives, but we have second rounds for election so we vote communist!
Memes @lemmygrad.ml Comrade nerd SpongeBob is putting in the work
It's all nothing without putting it to practice tbh. I think practicing actual Marxism-Leninism is what's lacking. Plenty of academic works exists if you know where to find them
Not that I'm against making stuff more accessible, but I find that works best when allied to actual parties and such. In Brazil for instance plenty of my comrades in the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) are translating works from their source Russian texts and publishing them online and to books. Helps fundraise too.
I take China's stance: please let's fucking talk this over because we're only doing more harm right now
But for this war to end Ukraine has to stop being outright nazis in service of imperialism. We need organizing of armed dissidence inside Ukraine. We need conscripted soldiers fragging their imperialist commanders stat
I won't disclose much about my (actual) comrades' work because duh.
But basically they kicked out 80% of the UJC National Committee, which were elected in the UJC congress (separate from party's, better ofc)
The publix positions against the congress in the yourh have only come from some youth bootlickers up top, and we know them well. A couple of people who actually do work have sided with the CC, but very few in the grand scheme of things.
In my state the support for the XVII Extraordinary Congress frm the youth is unanimous, and that's way over 100 people. Many party cells are starting to come forward now that the purges have reached the base level of militants.
To organize the congress we're electing provisional committees to actually get things working per state/region and the debate tribune has been opened to the public by some of the comrades that have been kicked out, it's all public and is curated by a provisional committee https://emdefesadocomunismo.com.br/tag/tribuna-debates/
FYI, in the XVI Congress the debate tribunes werw only open to national delegates and went unused by the revisionists. In that congress we instituted a permanent tribune and it hasn't gotten off the ground in over a year and a half. In the space of two weeks the PCB-RR one is working full steam, with multiple articles a day
We will follow regular congress structure afaik after we elect our provisional regional committees