Partido Comunista Obrero Español (Spanish Communist Workers' Party) is a minor communist political party in Spain. PCOE was founded in 1973, when Enrique Lister (General from the Spanish Civil War) revolted against the eurocommunist line of PCE General Secretary Santiago Carrillo. A catalyst for the split was the condemnation by the PCE of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968. PCOE was legalized in 1977.
The referrent of PCOE in Catalonia was Partit Comunista Obrer de Catalunya.
PCOE published Unidad y Lucha (Unity and Struggle). PCOE had a youth organization called Federación de Jovenes Comunistas de España.
In the 1983 regional elections in Valencian country PCOE obtained 6 416 votes (0,34%).
The PCOE had electoral collaboration with Partido Comunista de España Unificado ahead of the 1983 regional elections in Madrid. When PCEU and other groups unified themselves as the Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España, PCOE chose to stay outside. In the 1980's Lister and the majority of PCOE militants returned to PCE.
PCPE and PCOE didn't, however, have any major ideological differences and PCOE merged with PCPE in 2000.
In 2003 a group broke away from PCPE and re-constituted PCOE. Today the party publishes Teoría Socialista and Análisis.
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For information on the PCOE formed in 1921 see the article Partido Comunista Obrero Español (1921).
Last updated: 05-27-2005 08:28:11
