Rui Costa Pimenta
Rui Costa Pimenta | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Pimenta in 2014 | |
| National President of PCO | |
| Assumed office 7 December 1995 | |
| Preceded by | Created office |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Rui Costa Pimenta 25 June 1957 |
| Party | PCO (1995–present) PT (1980–1995) |
| Spouse |
Anaí Caproni (m. 1995) |
Rui Costa Pimenta (born in São Paulo, 25 June 1957) is a Brazilian politician and a perennial presidential candidate aligned with the Trotskyist Workers' Cause Party (Portuguese: Partido da Causa Operária).
He was their candidate in the 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 presidential elections and placed last in all of the elections he ran.[1]
Early life and activism
Pimenta studied at Faculdade Cásper Líbero and started participating in student activism during this period, having been present at the National Union of Students' Refoundation Congress in 1980. He was also director of the Academic Center of Literary and Lingustic Studies (CAELL) of the Faculty of Letters at the University of São Paulo[2]
Also in 1980, he was part of the Fourth International Organization's Foundation Congress. This congress saw the birth of the Workers' Cause coalition in the Workers' Party. In 1985, during his participation in the labor movement in protest against then President Sarney, he was elected as the director of the Central Única dos Trabalhadores, Brazil's largest trade union center, in the Greater São Paulo region.[2]
In 1992, the members of the Workers' Cause coalition officially declared their intentions to split from the Workers' Party. In 1996, the Workers' Cause Party was registered.[2]
In March of 2024, Pimenta met with Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas.[3]
Political positions
Pimenta is a marxist and trotskyist. He opposes imperialism[4] neoliberalism,[5] identity politics,[6] and restrictions on free speech[7] and gun ownership.[8]
He supported Luís Inácio Lula da Silva in the 2018 and 2022 Brazilian general elections.
References
- ^ "PCO pede registro de Rui Pimenta como candidato a presidente". Terra Networks (in Portuguese). 5 July 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- ^ a b c "Rui Costa Pimenta". PCO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-01-14.
- ^ Pavini, Murilo (2024-03-03). "PCO monta palanque para chefe do Hamas". O Antagonista (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-03-16.
- ^ ,"Imperialismo". PCO (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ^ "Rui Costa Pimenta: Chile foi cobaia da política neoliberal, agora a população vive na corda bamba". Brasil 247 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2019-10-25. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
- ^ "Sobre o identitarismo e a concepção marxista da opressão - DCO". Diário Causa Operária (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2021-08-16. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- ^ "Liberdade de expressão". PCO (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ^ "Rui Pimenta defende população armada para combater o crime". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2014-08-20. Retrieved 2020-01-30.