The League of Poor Peasants (Portuguese: Liga dos Camponeses Pobres, LCP) is a left-wing farmer organization based in Brazil.
[1] The LCP takes a radical approach to the peasant situation, supporting the occupation and transformation of large estates into productive collectives structured under People's Power Assemblies.
[3] The group also has faced death threats and selected assassinations from hired gunmen which the League claims is a collaborated effort between the government and landowners.
[9] The LCP has also received expressed support from foreign communists, especially maoist groups such as French GRC,a AIAI (Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland), Swedish Proletarian Action[10] and the Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun[11] The LCP has also endorsed concepts from Marxist, Leninist and Maoist politics, such as People's War,[12] semifeudalism and capitalist imperialism.
[6] According to the LCP's publication Nosso Caminho (Our Path), the organization's general program outlines the goals for an agrarian revolution in the Brazilian countryside to replace latifundia with collective production and structure.