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===Reintegration in the PCE=== |
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In 1985 the majority faction, led by [[Enrique Lister]], decided to dissolve the party and rejoin the [[Communist Party of Spain|PCE]],<ref>[http://elpais.com/diario/1986/03/21/espana/511743609_850215.html El partido comunista de Líster se integrará en abril en el PCE, El País, 21 de marzo de 1986.]</ref> in a congress where the 10,000 members of the PCOE were represented. The majority of the members followed Lister and rejoined the PCE; however, a minority faction decided that they weren't going to join the PCE and kept the party alive, although severely weakened.<ref>[http://elpais.com/diario/1986/04/19/espana/514245621_850215.html Líster califica de "regreso a casa" la reintegración en el PCE.]</ref> |
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Revision as of 18:50, 4 December 2015
Spanish Communist Workers' Party Partido Comunista Obrero Español | |
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| Secretary-General | Francisco Barjas |
| Founder | Enrique Lister |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Newspaper | Teoría Socialista and Análisis |
| Youth wing | Communist Youth Federation of Spain (FJCE) |
| Ideology | Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism Antifascism Republicanism |
| Political position | Radical Left |
| Union wing | Asamblea de Comités, Delegados y Trabajadores |
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| www.pcoe.net | |
- For information on the PCOE formed in 1921 see the article Spanish Communist Workers' Party (1921).
Partido Comunista Obrero Español (PCOE, Spanish Communist Workers' Party) is a minor communist political party in Spain. It was founded in 1973, when Enrique Líster (a Republican general in the Spanish Civil War) revolted against the Eurocommunist line of Communist Party of Spain (PCE) general secretary Santiago Carrillo. The party published Unidad y Lucha.
History
A catalyst for the split was the condemnation by the PCE of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968. PCOE was legalized in 1977, during the Spanish transition to democracy. Its sister organisation in Catalonia was the Partit Comunista Obrer de Catalunya. PCOE had a youth organization called the Communist Youth Federation of Spain (Federación de Jóvenes Comunistas de España).
In the 1983 regional elections in the Valencian Community PCOE obtained 6,416 votes (0.34%). It had an electoral pact with Partido Comunista de España Unificado ahead of the regional elections in Madrid of the same year. When PCEU and other groups unified themselves as the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain, PCOE chose to remain on the outside. Today the party publishes Teoría Socialista and Análisis.
Reintegration in the PCE
In 1985 the majority faction, led by Enrique Lister, decided to dissolve the party and rejoin the PCE,[1] in a congress where the 10,000 members of the PCOE were represented. The majority of the members followed Lister and rejoined the PCE; however, a minority faction decided that they weren't going to join the PCE and kept the party alive, although severely weakened.[2]