MANIFESTO OF OCTOBER 7, 1932

To the Brazilian Nation - To the country's workers and

I
Conception of Man and the Universe

God leads the destinies of peoples. Man must practice on earth the virtues that elevate and enhance him. Man
is worthy by work, by sacrifice in favor of Family, of Fatherland and of Society. Worthy by study, by
intelligence, by honesty, by progress in the sciences, in arts, in technical capacity, aiming at the welfare of
the Nation and the moral enhancement of the people. Wealth is a temporary good that does not magnify
anyone if it is not complied with their holders' strictly enforced duties to Society and the Fatherland.
Everyone can and must live in harmony, respecting and cherishing each other, each distinguishing
themselves in their aptitudes, because every man has a vocation and is the set of those vocations that realizes
the greatness of Nationality and social happiness.

Men and classes, therefore, can and must live in harmony. It is possible for the more modest workers to
climb a high intellectual or financial position. Each rises according to his vocation. All men are liable to
social harmonization and all superiority comes from one superiority that exists above men: their common
and supernatural purpose. This is a profoundly Brazilian thought, that comes from the Christian roots of our
history and is in the inmost of all our hearts.

II
How we understand the Brazilian Nation

The Brazilian Nation must be organized, one, indivisible, strong, powerful, rich, prosperous and happy. For
this we need all Brazilians united. But Brazil can not achieve the perfect and intimate union of its children, as
long as there are States within the State, political parties fractionating the Nation, classes fighting classes,
isolated individuals, exercising personal action on government decisions; ultimately each and every process
of division of the Brazilian people. For this reason, the nation needs to organize itself into professional
classes. Every brazilian will enroll in his class. These classes elect, each by itself, their representatives in
City Councils, in the Provincial Congresses and General Meetings. The elected to the Municipal Councils
elect their president and the mayor. The elected to the Provincial Congress elect the governor of the
Province. The elected to the National Congress elect the Chief of the Nation, and before him respond
ministers of his choice.

III
The Principle of Authority

One Nation, to progress in peace, to see their efforts bear fruit, to achieve prestige in its Interior and Exterior,
needs to have a perfect conscience of the Principle of Authority. We need Authority capable of taking
initiatives for the benefit of each and every one; able to prevent the rich, the powerful, the foreigners, the
political groups to influence government decisions, undermining the fundamental interests of the Nation.
We need hierarchy, discipline, without which there will be only disorder. A government that comes from the
free will of all classes is representative of the Fatherland: as such should be assisted, respected, esteemed and
prestigious. In it should s\tand the people's trust. To the government should be provided the means to
maintain social justice, the harmony of all classes, always seeking the higher interests of the Brazilian
community. Hierarchy, trust, order, peace, respect, here is what we need in Brazil.

IV
Our Nationalism

Cosmopolitanism, that is, foreign influence, is a deadly evil to our Nationalism. Our duty is to combat it .
And that does not mean ill will toward friendly Nations, to the children of other countries, who work here
also aiming the enhancement of the brazilian nation and whose descendants are integrated in the life of our
own people. We refer to customs, which are rooted primarily in our bourgeoisie, enraptured by this
civilization that endangers Europe and the United States. Our homes are impregnated with foreignness, our
lectures, our way of facing life, are not brazilian anymore. Brazilians from the cities do not know national
thinkers, writers, poets. Are ashamed of the caboclo and the black of our land. They acquire cosmopolitan
habits. Do not know all the difficulties and all the heroism, all the sufferings and all the aspirations, dreams,
energy and courage of the brazilian people. Always covering it with opprobriums and ironies, belittling the
races which we come from. Magnifying everything foreign, showing contempt for all national initiatives.
Having given us an inadequate political regime, they would rather, before the disasters of the Fatherland,
accuse the brazilian of being incapable, instead of confessing that the regime was the incapable one.
Skeptical, disillusioned, exhausted of delights, all that these powerful or those big and small bourgeois talk
about, distils a poison that corrodes the soul of the youth. They created ethnic prejudices originated from
countries that want to dominate us. Despised all our traditions. And seek to implement the immorality of
customs. We are against the pernicious influence of this pseudo-civilization, who wants to standardize us.
And we are against the influence of communism, which represents soviet capitalism, russian imperialism,
that seeks to reduce us to a captaincy. We stand up, in a great nationalist movement, to affirm the value of
Brazil and all that is useful and beautiful, in the brazilian character and customs, to unite all Brazilians in one
spirit: the amazonian tapuio, the northeastern, the countrymen of northern and central provinces, the
caiçaras and piraquaras, cowboys, calús, capichabas, calungas, paroaras, miners, cattlemen and drovers of
Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, settlers, ranchers, aggregates, small craftsmen of São Paulo; ervateiros of
Paraná and Santa Catarina, the gaúchos of the Pampas, the working class of all regions, the youth of the
schools, traders, industrialists, farmers, teachers, artists, employees, doctors, lawyers, engineers, workers of
all railways; soldiers, sailors - all that still have in their hearts their greater love and enthusiasm for Brazil.
We must rely on our glorious traditions, we have to assert ourselves as a people united and strong, that
nothing can divide. Nationalism for us is not just the cult of Flag and National Anthem, is a profound
awareness of our needs, of character, of trends, of aspirations of the country and the value of a people. Such
is a great campaign that we will undertake.

V
We, the Parties and the Government

We, united brazilians, of all Provinces, propose to create a culture, a civilization, a genuinely brazilian way
of life. We want to create a public right of ours, according to our realities and aspirations, a government that
guarantees the unity of all the provinces, the harmony of all classes, the initiatives of all individuals, the
supervision of the state and nation-building. Therefore, our ideal does not allow us to enter into agreements
with regional parties because we do not recognise these parties, we recognize the nation.

Until we see Brazil organized without the evil of selfish partisanship, the Brazilian State expressing classes,
addressing the nation by the brain of its elites, we will not rest, in the propaganda which we impose.
Our Fatherland can not continue to be shredded by the governors of States, by parties, by the struggling
classes, by warlords. Our country needs to be united and strong, solidly built, in order to escape from foreign
domination, that threats it every day, and save itself from the internationalist communism that is entering its
body, like a cancer. For this reason we do not collaborate with any partisan organization that seeks to divide
brazilians. We repeat the phrase from the legendary Osório, when he wrote in the fields of Paraguay, saying
he did not recognize parties, because they divided the nation and this must be cohesive in the hour of danger.
We swear, today, union, faithfulness to each other, faithfulness to the fate of this generation. Or those in
power realize our political thought, or we, the Brazilian Integralist Action, declare ourselves outlawed,
spontaneously, of the false political life of the Nation, until the day that we are such a large number, that we
will restore our citizenship rights, and by the force of that number will conquer the Power of the Republic.
So we will march through the Future and there will be nothing to stop us, because the consciousness of the
Nation and the honor of Brazil march with us.

VI
What we think of the conspiracies and the graft of groups and factions

We declare ourselves enemies of all conspiracies, of all plots, conjurations, backstage hagglings, secret
confabulations, seditions. Our campaign is cultural, moral, educational, social, openly, in plain, with open
chest and head held high. Those who struggle with principles need not to plot anything in darkness. Those
who march on behalf of clear, defined ideas do not need masks. Our Fatherland is grievously lacerated with
conspiracies. Politicians and governments deal with immediate interests, which is why they conspire. We
preach loyalty, honesty, uncovered opinions, the struggle in the field of ideas. Confabulations of the
politicians are defibrating the character of the brazilian people. Civilians and the military revolve around
people, for the lack of clarity in programs. All their programs are the same and these men are separated for
reasons of personal and group interests. For this reason, they plot against each other. And meanwhile,
communism plots against all. We preach openness and mental courage. We are for Brazil united, for the
Family, for the Property, the organization and legitimate representation of classes; for religious morality; for
direct participation of intellectuals in the government of the Republic; by the abolition of the States within
the State; for a beneficial policy of Brazil in South America; by a nationalist campaign against the influence
of Imperialist countries, and, uncompromisingly, against russian communism. We are the revolution in
march. But the revolution with ideas. Therefore, honest, loyal and brave.

VII
The social question as regarded by the Brazilian Integralist Action

The social question must be solved through the cooperation of all, according to justice and the desire of each
one for progress and improvement. The right of ownership is fundamental for us, considered in its natural
and personal character. Capitalism today plots against this right, based in unbridled individualism, marking
the face of the liberal-democratic economic system. We must adopt new regulatory processes of production
and trade, so that the government can avoid damaging imbalances to social stability. Communism is not a
solution because it is based on the same fundamental principles of capitalism, with the aggravating
circumstance of reducing all the bosses to one and enslaving the working class to a minority of cruel officials
all recruited in the bourgeoisie. Communism destroys the family to better enslave the worker to the State;
destroys human personality to better enslave man to the community; destroys religion to further enslave man
to the instincts; destroys individual initiative, kills stimulus, sacrifices all of humanity, for a dream, falsely
scientific, that promises to accomplish as soon as possible, that is, at least 200 years from now. What we
wish to give to the worker, the farmer, the soldier, the sailor is the possibility to rise according to their
vocation and righteous desires. We intend to give everyone the means to achieve, by their qualities, work and
constancy, an increasingly better position, both in and outside of their class, and even in the government of
the Nation. We do not teach the worker the doctrine of cowardice, disillusionment, hatred, resignation, like
communism, or anarchy, the doctrine of submission, of inevitable ostracism, conformation with the
impositions of politicians, like liberal democracy. We teach the doctrine of courage, hope, love of Country, of
Society, of Life, in what it has of most beautiful and achievable, of just ambition to progress, to own
property, to elevate himself and the family. We do not destroy the person, like communism, nor oppress, as
liberal democracy; we dignify them. We want workers with the guarantee of wages suited to their needs,
taking an interest in the profits according to their effort and ability, head held high, taking part in studies of
subjects that concern them; with a enlightened sight, as a free man; taking part in the decisions of the
government, as a superior being. Finishing factionalisms, regionalisms; organizing the nation, with workers
participaing in the government, by their legitimate representatives, with an oversight exercised by the
Integralist State on all productive activities, the doors will be open to all aptitudes. The organized classes will
ensure their members, in collective agreements, of the needs for the work or production of each, in a way
that does not, as it has been until now, put those who are unemployed to the humiliation of job applications,
often received with contempt by those whom they seek, which leads to fair riots. Free the workers and the
petty bourgeoisie of the criminal indifference of liberal governments. Save them from the slavery of
communism. Transfigure the worker, hero of the new country, the superior man, enlightened by the noble
ideals of material, intellectual and moral elevation, these are our purposes. To the State, the competence to
protect all.

VIII
The Family and the Nation

The importance we attach to Producing and Working Classes ia as great as we do to the family. It is the basis
of happiness on earth. One of the few possible fortunes. In what consists the happiness of man? These tiny
things, so smooth, so simple: the stroking of a mother, a father's word, the tenderness of a wife, the love of a
son, a brother's embrace, the dedication of relatives and friends. Solidarity in misfortune, in sickness, in
death, that no State, in its bureaucratic or legal term, will never prevent, in any time. Communion in the joys,
the triumphs, the fights, all the moments of comfort, the stimulus of every day, the hope of perpetuity
through blood and affectionate remembrance, here is what the family is, perpetual source of spirituality and
renewal, while projection of the human personality. Take family away from man and what stays is an animal;
make him a piece working in the state and we will have the automaton, unhappy, downgraded from its
superior condition. What affection, what comfort, what consolation can the State give to this "economic
entity", in times of great afflictions, or at the time of death? Who will encourage him in times of sorrow, that
will be so inevitable in the regime of communist bureaucracy as in any other regime? At the supreme
moment, science, public life, social life, community life, individualistic selfishness are not enough; it is
necessary that the heart enters a man's life and speaks this language that is not of the compassion of a
stranger, of formalist philanthropy, of official support, nor of an absurd socialization of affections: - but the
profound language of long-nurtured and stimulated affinities. Man can not turn himself into a bee or a
termite. Man and his family preceded the State. The State must be strong to keep man and his family intact.
Because the family is establishing the virtues that consolidate the state. The State itself is a large family, a
group of families. With this character he has authority to trace the paths to the Nation. Based on the rights of
the family the State has the duty to achieve social justice, representing the producing classes. We intend, at
this grave time for the Brazilian family, to subscribe its defense in our program. It is to defend the family of
the worker, merchant, industrialist, farmer, peasant, businessman, physician, pharmacist, lawyer, engineer,
magistrate, scientist, artist, teacher, employee, soldier and sailor, against disruption, prostitution and ruin,
that we wish the Strong State, based on the living forces of the nation.

IX
The City, Center of the Families, Cell of the Nation

The city is a gathering of families. The man and the woman, as professionals, as agents of production and
progress, must enroll in their respective classes, in order to be supported by them, in times of sickness and
unemployment. Thus, those who work and produce are guaranteed by their own class, they do not rely on
favors from political leaders, warlords, local directories, electoral canvassers. It is the only way to make vote
free and conscious. Classes elect their representatives to the municipal councils, as we said, and they elect
their president and mayor. Municipalities should be autonomous in all matters relating to their peculiar
interests, because the city is a meeting of residents who aspire to local progress and welfare. Administrative
morality can be enforced by the classes themselves, because what determined the demoralization of
Municipal Councils, in the liberal system, was graft, the support that local political bosses had from leaders
of state policy. With parties extinct, the municipal government will rest on the willingness of the classes.
Within these, no foreign influence could be exerted, because everyone feels supported by the class to which
they belong. There will be no ways of making political persecution, because the local government will be
free from injunctions of men who, living outside the municipality, meddle in their business, as has been
common. The city, therefore, headquarters of families and classes, will be managed with honesty, will be
autonomous and will be directly linked to national goals.

X
The Integralist State

We intend to conduct the Integralist State, free of any principle of division: political parties; statisms in the
struggle for hegemony, class struggles, local factions; warlordisms; disorganized economy; antagonisms
between the military and the civilians; antagonisms between state militias and the Army; between the
government and the people; between the government and the intellectuals; between those and the popular
masses. We intend to operate the classic powers (Executive, Legislative and Judicial), according to the
impositions of the Organized Nation, with bases in its Productive Classes, in the City and the Family. We
intend to create the supreme authority of the Nation. We intend to mobilize all technical capabilities, all
scientists, all artists, all professionals, each acting within its sphere, to realize the greatness of the Brazilian
Nation. We intend to take as the basis of the Great Nation, the man of our own land, in his historical,
geographical, economic reality, in his character, his nature, his aspirations, studying it deeply, according to
science and morality. From this biological and psychological element, deduct social relations, with secure
standards of law, education, economic policy, legal grounds. As the dome of this building, we will
accomplish the supreme idea, the synthesis of our civilization: in philosophy, in literature, in the arts which
express the meaning of our national and human spirit. We intend to create, with all the racial elements,
according to mesological and economic imperatives, the Brazilian Nation, saving them from the errors of
capitalist civilization and and the mistakes of communist barbarism. Create in a single expression the
Economic State, the Financial State, the Representative State and the Cultural State. We intend to raise the
Brazilian population, in an unprecedented union, in a force never achieved, in a hope never imagined. We
intend to lay the foundations for an educational system to ensure the survival of the Nation in the future. We
intend to inject energy to the youth, pluck them out of the disbelief, apathy, skepticism and sorrow in which
they live, teach them the lesson of courage, instilling in them the certainty of the value that each has within
himself, as the son of Brazil and of America. Drive the popular masses in a great affirmation of rejuvenation.
Shake the fibers of the Fatherland. Save it from its depression, its dismay, its sorrow, so it walks, starting the
New Civilization, which, by our strength, by our audacity, through faith we will come from Brazil, ignite our
continent, and influence even in the World. For this, we will fight the ironists, the indifferent, the
disillusioned, the unbelievers, because this time we swore not to rest a moment, until we are victorious or
dead, because with us wins or dies the Fatherland.

These are the paths of our march!