Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) Partido Comunista de España (marxista-leninista) | |
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| Founder | Elena Ódena, Raúl Marco and other people split off from theCommunist Party of Spain |
| Founded | 1964 (1964) 2006 (2006) |
| Dissolved | 1992 (1992) |
| Merger of | Merger ofCommunist Party of Spain (PCE) splinter groups |
| Merged into | Together withSpanish National Liberation Front andVanguardia Socialista gave origin to theRevolutionary and Patriotic Antifascist Front (FRAP) |
| Headquarters | Spain |
| Newspaper | Revolución Española Vanguardia obrera "Octubre" (current) |
| Youth wing | Communist Youth of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) |
| Affiliated union | Oposición Sindical Obrera (1964-1977) Asociación Obrera Asambleista (1977-1992) |
| Student | Federación Universitaria Democrática Española (1967-1968) |
| Affiliated artists | Unión Popular de Artistas |
| Legal wing | Republican Left (1979-1981) |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism-Leninism Anti-Francoism Republicanism Hoxhaism (1976-1992) Anti-revisionism Proletarian internationalism[1] |
| National affiliation | Convención Republicana de los Pueblos de España (1976-1983) |
| International affiliation | Aligned with theAlbanian Party of Labour (1964-1992) International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle) (current) |
| Armed wing (1973-1977) | Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front |
| Colors | Red |
| Town councillors (1979-1983) | 5 / 67,505 [2] |
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| Website | |
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TheCommunist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) (inSpanish:Partido Comunista de España (marxista-leninista), PCE (m-l)) is acommunistpolitical party inSpain, formed in 1964 through the merger of splinter groups of theCommunist Party of Spain (PCE).
PCE(m-l) followed the line of theChinese Communist Party andMaoism until it took the side of theParty of Labour of Albania, which granted it official recognition, against the Chinese, during the events that led to theSino-Albanian split.[3]
The PCE(m-l) party was formed by communists dissatisfied that the Communist Party of Spain, under the leadership ofSantiago Carrillo, had abandoned the armed struggle in 1964. It remained small throughout its existence and in 1968 it shrank further when a sector of its militants abandoned the party to join theOrganisation of Marxist–Leninists of Spain.[4]
In January 1971, at the time when the need was felt to renew the fight against theFrancoist rule of Spain, the then Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist), together with theSpanish National Liberation Front(FELN) andVanguardia Socialista, took part in the foundation of theRevolutionary and Patriotic Antifascist Front(FRAP)[5] at a meeting inParis held in a house owned byAmerican writerArthur Miller. The PCE(m-l) launched then the Coordinating Committee of the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front, which held its constituent conference in 1974, and was designed to coordinate student insurrections against theFrancisco Francodictatorial regime based on the model of the student demonstrations ofMay 1968 in France. Initially the Front was led byJulio Álvarez del Vayo,FELN leader and a former member of theSpanish Socialist Workers' Party.
Other fronts of PCE(m-l) were:
PCE(m-l) publishedRevolución Española. In 1977, during theSpanish transition to democracy, it started publishingVanguardia obrera as the organ of theCentral Committee of the party.
The party was legalized in 1981.[3] That year, a split surged in the party, with a dissident group forming a parallelPCE(m-l) and publishing its own version ofVanguardia obrera.
The sixth and last congress of PCE(m-l) was held in 1992, voting to dissolve the party. An agreement was made to form a new group, thePartido Comunista Democratico, but that was never carried out. The main leader of PCE(m-l),Raúl Marco, had broken away in 1991 to form theColectivo Octubre, which evolved intoOrganización Comunista Octubre.
The Organización Comunista Octubre merged with a number of other regional splits from the PCE (m-l) to form theComité Estatal de Organizaciones Comunistas (CEOC).
The CEOC with four other communist organizations merged in 2007 to form the re-foundedPCE(m-l).[6] The new PCE (m-l) continues theHoxhaist line of the old PCE (m-l) and is an active member of the ICMLPO, an international grouping of Hoxhaist communist parties.
| Election | Votes | % | Seats | Notes |
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| 1982 | 23,186 | 0.11% | 0 / 350 | |
| 1986 | 27,473 | 0.14% | 0 / 350 | as part of theRepublican Popular Unity |
