The novelty that excites – The Brazilian Communist Party and the 1986’s Alagoas Popular Front

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the participation of Alagoas Section of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB-AL) in Alagoas Popular Front, a coalition of leftist political parties whose regimentation aimed to contest the elections of November, 15th 1986. Composed by Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), the Workers Party (PT) and Democratic Labour Party (PDT), the "Front" tried to be as an alternative before the two major existing political blocs, led by the PMDB and the PFL. I try to approach the debates and dilemmas arising in the organization of the Front, the positioning of its political actors and the challenges faced, especially by the PCB, the newly opened political landscape of the New Republic. Inserted in a broader research effort, this work aims to contribute to a period still understudied of the communist trajectory: the period from the reorganization of the party in the late 1970s and early next; a gap of time the college was restructured, obtained the legality and finally extinction before the crisis arising from the transformations, both internal and external, he passed the communist world in the period when the Cold War walked to its end. Likewise, I try to enter a temporality still poorly addressed by historians, who only recently has paid attention to the transition process that restored the liberal democratic regime in Brazil.