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Party of Labour of Catalonia Partit del Treball de Catalunya | |
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| Founded | 1969 (1969) |
| Dissolved | 1980 (1980) |
| Ideology | Marxism-leninism Maoism Catalanism |
| National affiliation | Party of Labour of Spain[1] |
TheParty of Labour of Catalonia (Catalan:Partit del Treball de Catalunya) was acommunist party inCatalonia, Spain. PTC was formed in 1979 following a split from theParty of Labour of Spain (PTE). The leader of PTC wasJoan Sánchez Carreté, a politician who was active during theFranco dictatorship.
PTC soon merged with theMarxist Unification Movement (MUM) and formed theCatalan Workers Bloc (BCT). The group that remained in PTE also called itself PTC, and contested the1979 parliamentary elections as "Partit del Treball de Catalunya (Federación del Partido del Trabajo de España)".[2] In the1980 Catalan regional election the party supported and participated in the electoral candidacyUnity for Socialism.