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Carlos Antunes, an anti-fascist fighter and leader of the Revolutionary Brigades, died this Saturday at the age of 82, in Lisbon, the family told Lusa.
Carlos Antunes had been hospitalized since December 29, after being infected with covid-19 at Christmas, and for the past two weeks he had been battling viral and bacterial pneumonia. According to the family, he fell into a coma this morning and died in the afternoon.
Born in June 1938, Carlos Antunes left with Isabel do Carmo, his ex-partner, one of the faces of the opposition to Estado Novo.
According to the family source, the doctor and political activist, as well as all the relatives who met at Christmas, also contracted covid-19 and were admitted to the hospital between the 11th and 20th, and are now recovering at home .
According to the biographical data of Carlos Antunes (at https://memoriando.net), the politician joined the PCP as early as 1955 and was responsible for the clandestine organization of the party in Minho, going underground in 1959.
In 1963 he joined the management of Rádio Portugal Livre, installed in Romania, where he lived until 1966, and then left for Paris, where he was responsible for organizing the PCP abroad.
He worked in Paris with the historic communist leader Álvaro Cunhal, from whom he left in 1968, being the origin, the following year, of what would become the Revolutionary Brigades and then the Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat (created in 1973).
Between 1969 and 1974 he led the actions of the Revolutionary Brigades, which defended the armed struggle as a way to overthrow the fascist regime.
Accused in 1977 of the moral responsibility of several armed actions, he was in preventive prison from that year until 1982 and about five years after his release he was tried and acquitted.
Isabel do Carmo, an anti-fascist who also left the PCP, founded the Revolutionary Brigades with Carlos Antunes.
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