Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain


Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain is a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Spain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of several Marxist-Leninist factions. The youth organization is called the Communist Youth of the Peoples of Spain.

History

From 13-15 December 1984 a "Communist Unity Congress" was held in Madrid. Partido Comunista de España Unificado, Movimiento de Recuperación del PCE, Movimiento para la Recuperación y Unificación del PCE, Candidatura Comunista, and some minor groups unified themselves, thus creating Partido Comunista.
All these groups had surged from splits from the Communist Party of Spain during the 1970s and 1980s. Quickly after its foundation, PCPE was recognized by some other parties, such as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and other statebearing Eastern bloc parties. The party was formed by those who were against Santiago Carrillo's Eurocommunist line in the PCE. The Catalan referent of PCPE was initially Party of Communists of Catalonia, but it later broke with PCPE and now the Catalan referent is the Communist Party of the Peoples of Catalonia.
PCPE briefly joined Izquierda Unida in 1987. In 2000, the Spanish Communist Workers' Party merged with PCPE, and the publication of the united party became Unidad y Lucha.

2017 Split

In April 2017 the PCPE suffered a major split. During the fifth plenary session of the central committee a minority of the committee recognized Ástor García as the new secretary general of the party, however a majority continued to recognize the incumbent secretary general Carmelo Suárez. The group around Ástor García created a new competing website of the PCPE.
Both PCPE-Suárez and PCPE-García were recognized by different communist parties as the legitimate PCPE. A majority of the Collectives of Communist Youth membership pledged allegiance to PCPE-García.
For the next two years both groups would compete for the PCPE name and international recognition. This dispute was finally resolved in March 2019 when the PCPE-García relinquished its claim to the PCPE name and renamed itself to the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain.

Publications

PCPE publishes Unidad y Lucha and Propuesta Comunista. Before the PCOE-PCPE merger, the main publication of the party was Nuevo Rumbo.

Electoral performance

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