Colorcode: | red |
Partido Revolucionário do Proletariado - Brigadas Revolucionárias | |
Native Name: | Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat - Revolutionary Brigades |
Leader: | Carlos Antunes and Isabel do Carmo |
Foundation: | 1973 |
Dissolved: | 1976 (banned) |
Ideology: | Marxism Guevarism Popular Power[1] |
Position: | Far-Left |
Country: | Portugal |
Partido Revolucionário do Proletariado - Brigadas Revolucionárias (in English: Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat – Revolutionary Brigades) was a political organization in Portugal. The Revolutionary Brigades were founded in 1970 by Isabel do Carmo, Carlos Antunes and Pedro Goulart, and advocated armed struggle against the regime.[2] The first armed action was carried out in 1971. PRP-BR was constructed as a party later. In 1975 the PRP attempted to create a School of Proletarian Culture as an alternative to bourgeois education. The PRP supported the candidacy for the 1976 presidential elections of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho.[3] After November 25, 1975, PRP and Revolutionary Brigades were formally separated. PRP-BR did not participate in elections after the advent of democracy in Portugal.