Socialist Parties (Brazil)

Last modified: 2003-02-22 by joe mcmillan
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• PT - Party of the Workers
• PDT - Democratic Labor Party
• PPS - Popular Socialist Party
• PSB - Brazilian Socialist Party
• PSTU - Unified Socialist Workers Party

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• Brazilian Communist Parties
• Brazilian Political Parties
• MST - Movement of Landless Rural Laborers

Partido Popular Socialista (PPS)

Popular Socialist Party

The flag logo of the PPS is at www.pps.com.br.
Dov Gutterman, 8 March 1999

The PPS is the main successor of the original Partido Comunista Brasileiro (Brazilian Communist Party). The party was renamed in 1993 when a party congress decided to drop Marxist-Leninist doctrine.  At the same time the hammer and sickle were removed from the party flag. 
Joseph McMillan, 16 April 2001

The flag is defined in Article 5 of the party statute: "a red flag with the letters P, P, and S in golden yellow (amarelo ouro). The PPS elected 15 deputies and one senator in the 2002 elections.
Joseph McMillan, 5 November 2002

Partido Socialista Brasileiro

Brazilian Socialist Party

by Guillermo Tell Aveledo

The party statute provides in article 81 that "The flag of the PSB has the col