Bento Gonçalves, the ideological founder of the Portuguese Communist Party. ...

Bento Gonçalves, the ideological founder of the Portuguese Communist Party. ...

Bento Gonçalves (1902 - 1942)

Bento António Gonçalves (1902-1942) was one of the first Secretary Generals of the PCP congress in 1977 PCP sticker from 1999 PCP leaflet from 1999 The Portuguese Communist Party (Portuguese: Partido Comunista Português) is a communist party founded in 1921. ...Portuguese Communist Party, he was born in Montalegre ( Portuguese, first part meaning mount second part meaning happy or joyful) is a parish and a municipality in Portugal. ...Montalegre, near Bragança can refer to: Bragança, a city and a district in Portugal In Brazil: Bragança, Pará Bragança Paulista, São Paulo Bragança (royal house) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...Bragança, in the North of Portugal. Not much is known about his childhood. In 1915 he became an apprentice mechanical turner in Lisbon (in Portuguese, Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal. ...Lisbon, four years later, in 1919 he started doing the same work in the Arsenal of the Portuguese navy in Alfeite.

In 1922 he joined the navy and one year later he started the elementary course of pilots. In 1924 he was sent to Angola is a country in southwestern Africa bordering Namibia, Congo-Kinshasa, and Zambia, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean. ...Angola in and started to work as a mechanical turner in the Luanda (formerly called Loanda) is the largest city and capital of Angola. ...Luanda railroad company and became an activist, trying to organize the Union of the Luanda's Workers.

In 1926 he returned to Lisbon, where he becomes a member of the Navy Workers Labor Union, in the next year he traveled to Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow  listen? ( Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskva), capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ...Moscow, in the Portuguese delegation to the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. ...Bolshevik Revolution.

In September of 1928 he joined the Portuguese Communist Party and became a member of the cell of the Arsenal of Alfeite. In 1929 he participated in the reorganizative conference of the Party and was elected to the provisional Central Commission, soon after, he became Secretary General.

In 1930 he was arrested by the political police of the Fascist Regime and was forced to live in the Azores. In the next year was transferred to Cape Verde ( Portuguese: Cabo Verde) is a republic located on an archipelago of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa. ...Cape Verde. In 1933 returned to Portugal and started working in clandestine condition. In november of the same year he traveled to This article is about the Spanish capital. ...Madrid where he established contact with the The first edition of Communist International, journal of the Comintern published in Moscow and Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) in May 1919. ...Comintern and the Categories: Communist parties | Spanish political parties ...Spanish Communist Party. In 1935, Bento Gonçalves participated in the 7th Congress of the Comintern, soon after returning to portugal he was arrested again by the political police, PIDE stands for Polícia Internacional de Defesa do Estado (English: International Police for State Defense) and was the main tool of repression used by the Portuguese authoritarian regime, the Estado Novo. ...PIDE.

In 1936 he was transferred to a prison in Azores and was judged in a military court for his communist activities. In the end of the year he was transferred to the concentration camp in Tarrafal, where it would die of sickness in 1942.

In the Avante! Festival of 2002, the Party carried out a explosion in the Central Pavilion about his work and life.