MR-8

The Revolutionary Mouvement of October 8th ( Movimento Revolucionário 8 of Outubro ) is a movement armed Marxist Brésil IEN, which was formed at the end of the years 1960. Its name refers to the day of dead of Ernesto Che Guevara the October 8th 1967.

History

It corresponds to the evolution of the old group: DI of Guanabara, (Dissidence of Guanabarra). It acted at the base of a group being separated from the PCB (Brazilian Communist party) because considering it too passive.

The " DI of Guanabara" was active on Rio de Janeiro since 1966, concentrating mainly in the academic world, and organizes many act of Terrorisme against the military regime, in place with the Brésil since 1964.

The MR-8 orchestrates in particular a great number of attacks of banks of which the benefit are used to finance the network, on the level Logistique and armament.

The MR-8 is close to other groups armed with Extreme-left such as the ALN (Action of National Release), directed by Carlos Marighella, or PCBR. With the difference of the ALN, the MR-8 recommends the creation of a new Marxist and critical party the PCB by affirming that the Révolution, in Brazil, must have a socialist character and not démocratico-middle-class man.

From the strategic point of view, the methods of the MR-8 are connected with those of the ALN.

In 1969, the MR-8 and the ALN coordinate themselves and carry out together their most important action: the Removal of the American Ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick. They then publish a proclamation in which they justify their acts by the fact that they do not have any illusion on the role of the US government in the installation of military dictatorships in Latin America.

They there affirm the power of the resistance in place and ask for the release of political prisoners as well as the publication in the media of proclamation.

Following this action, a very strong repression will be carried out against these groups. Thus on June 27th, 1969, the State removes one of the leaders of the organization Reinaldo Silveira Pimenta.

In 1970, the MR-8 takes part has many actions of Guérilla on Rio and orchestrate various escapes from revolutionists locked up in the Brazilian prisons.

In 1972, the organization will become inactive with the escape of part of its members towards the foreigner.

After the restoration of the democracy, the group at summer reorganized in a center political party , the Partido make Movimento Democrático Brasileiro. In the Brazilian policy, this party is singular, being a hard communist group functioning in a center political party.

MR-8 maintains a high profile international. It had developed business connections with the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and it implied in the Affaire Oil against food.

An investigation having for goal to count the crimes committed by the dictatorship will be carried out well after the end this one, it is entitled Brasil: Nunca But (transl. Brazil: never). Among all the lawsuits that it analyzes, 33 concern approximately 500 members of the MR-8 including one great part died or carried disappeared. There is no doubt about the fact that these disappearances are the consequence of the repression which the Brazilian State against the movement carried out and which they return in the sum of the victims of the Opération Condor.

Four days in September, film on the removal of the ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick

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