THE Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) has urged workers to “fight for popular power” and called for the strengthening of mass organisations, popular committees and trade unions.

This, according to the party, is essential to steel the Brazilian working class — the second-largest in South America — for the struggle against the reactionary forces of the far right.

The PCB, which celebrates its centenary this year, said that the deepening economic crisis and the government’s disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic had “intensified and opened up the class struggle in Brazil.”