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Portuguese Communist Party Partido Comunista Português | |
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Abbreviation | PCP |
General Secretary | Paulo Raimundo |
Founded | 6 March 1921 |
Legalized | 26 December 1974[1] |
Preceded by | Portuguese Maximalist Federation |
Headquarters | Rua Soeiro Pereira Gomes 3, 1600-019 Lisboa |
Newspaper | |
Youth wing | Portuguese Communist Youth |
Membership (2020) | 49,960[2][needs update] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
National affiliation | Unitary Democratic Coalition |
European Parliament group | The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL[9] |
International affiliation | IMCWP |
Colours | Red |
Slogan | "For Freedom, Democracy, and Socialism. The Future has a Party!"[10] |
Anthem | "The Internationale"[11][12] |
Assembly of the Republic | 4 / 230
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European Parliament | 1 / 21
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Regional Parliaments | 0 / 104
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Local government (Mayors) | 18 / 308
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Local government (Parishes) | 112 / 3,066
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Party flag | |
Website | |
www.pcp.pt | |
The Portuguese Communist Party (Portuguese: Partido Comunista Português, pronounced [pɐɾˈtiðu kumuˈniʃtɐ puɾtuˈɣeʃ], PCP) is a communist[13] and Marxist–Leninist[13][14] political party in Portugal based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself patriotic and internationalist,[15] and it is characterized as being between the left-wing[16] and far-left on the political spectrum.[17]
The party was founded in 1921, establishing contacts with the Comintern in 1922 and becoming its Portuguese section in 1923.[18][19] The PCP was banned after the 1926 military coup and subsequently played a major role in the opposition against the dictatorial regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. During the nearly five-decade-long dictatorship, the PCP was constantly suppressed by the secret police, which forced the party's members to live in clandestine status under the threat of arrest, torture, and murder. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, which overthrew the regime, the 36 members of party's Central Committee had, in the aggregate, experienced more than 300 years in jail.[20]
After the end of the dictatorship, the party became a major political force in the new democratic government. One of its goals, according to the party is to maintain its "vanguard role in the service of the class interests of the workers".[21][22] Currently, the PCP is the joint sixth largest in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic, where it holds 4 of the 230 assembly seats.[23]
The party publishes the weekly Avante!, founded in 1931. Its youth organization is the Portuguese Communist Youth, a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth.
When the Socialists came to power in 2015, they won the parliamentary support of two left wing parties, the Left Bloc and the Communists.
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