A Organização Latino Americana de Solidariedade (OLAS) e o embate ideológico na esquerda brasileira, 1960: o caso PCB

Abstract

In this work, we look historically, the relationship between The First Conference of Latin American Solidarity (OLAS of thesis) held in Havana, from July 31st to August 10th 1967 and the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB), founded in 1922, manly, on issues that drives their ideological and political projects for the Latin American context in the 1960s. The resolutions of the Conference indicated the propagation of armed struggle as the only alternative to be pursued by Latin American countries against the U.S. imperialism and the Military-Civil Dictatorship established in Brazil en April of 1964. The proposal to seize power through arms, in search of socialism in Latin American, not only went against went precepts of the Latin American Communist parties, particularly the PCB, as well as put in check the effective participation of political party in the preparation for the revolutionary process in the region, being that the Cuban revolutionary experience transcended the classical Leninist strategy that envisioned in the forefront of the struggle of classes the need of representation by a communist party. OLAS was the starting point to institutionalize Cuba´s point of view regarding strategy praxis for the development of revolution in American, obligating Brazil´s political-left, PCB, to defend internally it´s programmatic resolutions, positioning itself against Cuba´s strategy of exporting their focused model of revolution, not only for the situation of Brazilian society, but also for Latin America´s. The thrust of the bibliographical analysis is the confrontation of meanings used by the concepts that organize the theme of the revolution in OLAS´s document and the response given by PCB where issues like the enemy to combat, the character of the revolution, the methods of struggle; the role of the working class´s vanguard party, and national or continental character of the revolution gain relevance. We believe that facing the clash that occurred between the OLAS, and in particular, the PCB, starting mid 1960s, both organizations, political parties or not, related or not, sought in Latin America´s convoluted scenario to counter-act America´s imperialist ordinance and find alternative but diverting paths, for the achievement of socialism.