Carlos Marighella

Carlos Marighella was a Brazilian Marxist revolutionary and writer.

Marighella was born in Salvador, Bahia, to Italian immigrant Augusto Marighella and AfroBrazilian Maria Rita do Nascimento. His father was a bluecollar worker originally from Emilia, while his mother was a descendant of African slaves, brought from Sudan . He spent his young life at a house in Rua do Desterro, at the Baixa do Sapateiro neighbourhood, where he would graduate from primary and secondary education. In 1934, he left the Polytechnic School of Bahia, where he was pursuing a degree in civil engineering, in order to become an active member of the Brazilian Communist Party . He then moved to Rio de Janeiro to work in the restructuring of PCB.

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