“Principles” and “Contemporary World” magazines set aside

The magazines Principles e Contemporary world This Saturday (7) signed an important academic cooperation agreement. The publications are edited by the respective central committees of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB), through the Maurício Grabois Foundation (FMG), and the Communist Party of China (PCCH).

The signing meeting of the document by establishing the agreement was held at the headquarters of the PCdoB Central Committee in Brasilia. Representing PCdoB and FMG, Ana Prestes, PCdoB Secretary of International Relations, Ricardo Alemão Abreu, Director of International Affairs at the Maurício Grabois Foundation (FMG) and Fábio Palácio, director of Principles Magazine.

On the Chinese side the CCP sent to Brazil the general director of Contemporary world and President of the magazine’s advisory board, Lu Xuejun, and the party member of the party, Wang Jie.

Xuejun, who has a degree in communism history, greeted PCdoB and said admiring the party a lot for being a centenary communist party like the CCP. He recalled that in 2023 PCdoB President Luciana Santos was visiting the CCP International Relations Department in China, and that this agreement is a part of “the approximation between our two organizations”.

The Chinese leader explained that the magazine Contemporary world It has existed since 1981 and which recently underwent a renovation by completing 40 years of existence. The “contemporary world,” he said, intends to become an international reference magazine. This is why it is partnering with communist parties from around the world and its magazines. The first agreement was carried out with Nigeria for a coverage of all Africa. In 2023 they made an agreement with Cambodia to cover the Asean area. In Southern Africa they made an agreement with a group of 6 parties. In Latin America, the first magazine with whom they establish an agreement is to principles. Recently they were also in Malaysia and South Africa. In addition to the exchange of articles, they want to expand cooperation for audiovisual material, especially with short and informative videos.

According to Ricardo Alemão, “the agreement is a new milestone in the relations of academic cooperation and scientific dissemination between Brazil and China. Both magazines were founded in the same year of 1981 and in these more than four decades of existence stood out as Marxist magazines in their countries.”

For palace, “the great bourgeoisie and the western powers have at their disposal a huge arsenal of communication to enforce their interests. This includes news agencies, press vehicles and radioteledifusion and also the so-called Big Techs. Popular forces, devoid of the power of capital, have only the possibility of coordinating their actions and cooperating with each other. initiatives and will allow optimize the production and diffusion of counter-hegemonic contents. ”

Ana Prestes stated that it was an honor and a joy to receive the Chinese delegation at the party headquarters in Brasilia and that the agreement is the result of an increasingly fluent fraternal relationship between PCdoB and the CCP.

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Source: I21
Edition: Barbara Luz