Bento António Gonçalves, GOL (1902–1942) was the second Secretary General of the Portuguese Communist Party. He was born in Montalegre, Vila Real District, in the North of Portugal. Not much is known about his childhood. In 1915 he became an apprentice mechanical turner in Lisbon. Four years later, in 1919 he started doing the same work in the arsenal of the Portuguese navy in Alfeite. In the Avante! Festival of 2002, the Communist Party carried out an exposition in the central pavilion about his work and life.