Letter to the WFDY and its members
Dear comrades,
We, from UJC Brazil, the youth of the Brazilian Communist Party, would like to clarify some facts that are occurring regarding the representation of our organization in the World Federation of Democratic Youth.
First of all, we would like to remind you that these efforts to contact both the regional leadership of the WFYD and the Bureau did not begin a few months or weeks ago, but rather in November 2023. Since then, we have been trying to contact not only the leadership of the federation, but also the youth organisations that make it up.
We are requesting that the WFDY board, as was done in the letter sent in 2023 (APPENDIX 1), change the names of the representatives of UJC Brazil in the federation, as the people who are appointed have no longer been part of our organization for over a year. They are in that space deliberately using our name fraudulently and continue to build another political organization, violating our regulations.
Furthermore, in February 2025, we came across a letter sent to all organizations that make up the WFDY by the youth of the PCBR, who insistently continue to use the name of our organization to gain some kind of political capital. In a timely and succinct manner, this discussion has already ended in Brazil. Brazilian organizations are fully aware that this group that emerged from the UJC is another organization that, despite having a different stance and political line, insists on using the name of the organization.
The UJC Brazil is a historically and legally recognized entity, with its statutes, registrations and assets duly formalized before the Brazilian authorities (INPI process number 931185491 and CNPJ 56.091.265/0001-05). As the youth of a legalized party with active electoral registration, we have some formal duties before the Brazilian justice system. This case is a good example of this – we cannot allow the use of our organization’s name without facing the legal consequences. (In APPENDIX 2 you can view the legal records and documentation of the UJC; Victor Neves is the current youth secretary of the UJC and legally represents the organization).
The statement in the letter that the UJC Brazil underwent a “political repositioning” and has been affiliated with the PCBR since August 2023 actually refers to the group of former members who left after disrespecting our internal rules. The oldest people in this group that split have no more than 5 years of militancy within the organization. The militants who remain organic in the UJC and the PCB have been building the WFDY since 1945! They are historical figures who helped in the reorganization of the federation after the fall of the Berlin Wall and remain active to this day. The UJC Brazil maintains its political identity and alliances in accordance with its internal decisions, which are alien to the choices of the dissident group. The UJC did not abandon its historical positions; it was the expelled individuals who sought a new political path outside the organization.
As we have stated several times in meetings with the Latin American coordination: we have no problem with other organizations that leave the UJC (or the PCB) and are willing to join WFDY. Our youth have almost 100 years of history in the communist movement and these processes are consequences of the class struggle. However, we cannot tolerate the improper use of our name to garner political capital, something that has never happened in the history of the UJC up to the present moment.
In addition to the improper use of the UJC name, these former militants not only founded a new political organization, but also distanced themselves from the internationalist political line historically constructed by the UJC and the FMJD, which is anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist in nature. The FMJD is an anti-imperialist organization, with a firm position and history of denouncing and combating initiatives that corroborate imperialism and the weakening of the sufficient and independent character of the people to decide their own future. These people, now members of the PCBR, broke agreements made with political organizations that make up the struggles and movements in a maneuver of purist leftism and sectarianism. As if that were not enough, they joined forces with organizations with vacillating positions, leftists and collaborators of imperialism, such as Trotskyist parties that ran campaigns to collect donations for Ukraine during the war (but that refuse to help with donations to Cuba against the constant economic embargoes). In addition, a central figure in the process of splitting the Party collaborated with the Brazilian edition of a book together with activists from pro-Trump organizations (APPENDIX 3).
Finally, this letter is also a formal warning that any other group, individual or organization that speaks on behalf of UJC Brazil, other than our legal and authorized representative (who will be provided with documents that authenticate our ownership of the name), within or outside the national territory, will be prosecuted through legal means. We will not accept the improper use of our name. We at UJC Brazil will be present at the 21st General Assembly of the WFYD to reaffirm our commitment to the construction of WFYD and to strengthen the anti-imperialist policy.
Anti-imperialist greetings,
União da Juventude Comunista – UJC Brazil
Appendix
1. Letter sent to the FMJD in november 2023
To learn more about the split process denounced in the letter, click on this hyperlink and read our political statement on the matter.
2. Legal registration of the Communist Youth Union (UJC) – Brazil
3. PCBR leader Jones Manoel launching book with pro-Trump activist from ACP
Jones Manoel plays a central role in the PCB’s factionalization process, and as a national leader of the PCBR, he wrote the preface to the book by the leader of the American Communist Party, Carlos L. Garrido, who often has fascist positions, even before creating the ACP party, supporting Vladimir Putin’s policies in Midwestern Marx. The American Communist Party (ACP) is a “communist” organization that supports ideologies such as MAGA and the positions of Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
