Communist Party (Reconstructed)

Communist Party (Reconstructed) Partido Comunista (reconstruído)
Abbreviation	PC(R)
Founded	December 27, 1975 (1975-12-27)
Legalised	February 3, 1981 (1981-02-03)
Dissolved	July 5, 1992 (1992-07-05)[1]
Newspaper	Bandeira Vermelha Comunismo
Youth wing	Revolutionary Young Communist League
Ideology	Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism Hoxhaism
International affiliation	Party of Labour of Albania
Politics of Portugal Political parties Elections

Communist Party (Reconstructed) (Portuguese: Partido Comunista Português (reconstruído)), initially known as Portuguese Communist Party (Reconstructed) (Portuguese: Partido Comunista Português (Reconstruído)), was a political party in Portugal.

History

Proclamation of CMLP, OCMLP and ORPC(ml). announcing the constitutive congress of PCP(R).

PCP(R) was founded at a unitary congress in December 1975, through the fusion of the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization, the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee and the Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist).^[2]

PCP(R) held its second congress in 1977. After the break between China and Albania, PCP(R) sided with the Albanian Party of Labour. The Communist Party of Brazil had a strong influence over PCP(R).

PC(R) published Bandeira Vermelha.

The youth league of PCP(R)/PC(R) was the Revolutionary Young Communist League (UJCR).

In 1992 PC(R) was renamed Communists for Democracy and Progress (Comunistas pela Democracia e Progresso). In 1995 CDP merged into the People's Democratic Union.

Election results

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