He also founded (24 June 1973) and led the Hoxhaist Communist Party of Suriname (KPS), and was in opposition to the military dictatorship of Dési Bouterse.

Since 1970, he edited the anti-capitalist magazine De Rode Surinamer ("The Red Surinamese"), which opposed the "colonial imperialism" of the United States.

[5] Behr initially supported the military coup committed on 25 February 1980, but then became one of the leading opponents to the regime of Dési Bouterse.

[7] In 1996, the brother of Bram, Henri Behr, had a conversation with Paul Bhagwandas, one of the soldiers who participated in the military coup, shortly before his death.

Henri Behr recorded a part of the conversation on a tape, which, however, was lost after he had handed it to a human rights organization.