Portuguese Communist Party

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Portuguese Communist Party Partido Comunista Português
Abbreviation	PCP
General Secretary	Paulo Raimundo
Founded	6 March 1921 (1921-03-06)
Legalized	26 December 1974 (1974-12-26)[1]
Preceded by	Portuguese Maximalist Federation
Headquarters	Rua Soeiro Pereira Gomes 3, 1600-019 Lisboa
Newspaper	Avante! O Militante
Youth wing	Portuguese Communist Youth
Membership (2021)	49,960[2][needs update]
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism[3][4] Hard Euroscepticism[5][6]
Political position	Left-wing to far-left
National affiliation	Unitary Democratic Coalition
International affiliation	IMCWP
European Parliament group	The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL[7]
Colours	Red
Slogan	"For Freedom, Democracy, and Socialism. The Future has a Party!"[8]
Anthem	"The Internationale"[9][10]
Assembly of the Republic	4 / 230
European Parliament	2 / 21
Regional Parliaments	1 / 104
Local government (Mayors)	18 / 308
Local government (Parishes)	112 / 3,066
Party flag
Website
www.pcp.pt
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The Portuguese Communist Party (Portuguese: Partido Comunista Português, pronounced [pɐɾˈtiðu kumuˈniʃtɐ puɾtuˈɣeʃ], PCP) is a communist,^[11] Marxist–Leninist^[11][12] political party in Portugal based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself patriotic and internationalist,^[13] and it is characterized as being between the left-wing^[14] and far-left on the political spectrum.^[15]

The party was founded in 1921, establishing contacts with the Comintern in 1922 and becoming its Portuguese section in 1923.^[16][17] 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.^[18]

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".^[19][20] Currently, the PCP is the joint sixth largest in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic, where it holds 4 of the 230 assembly seats.^[21]

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.