Clandestine Colombian Communist Party
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Colombian Clandestine Communist Party
Partido Comunista Clandestino Colombiano |
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| Founder | Alfonso Cano |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Preceded by | Colombian Communist Party |
| Headquarters | Bogotá, Colombia |
| Paramilitary wing | Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia |
| Ideology |
Communism, Marxism–Leninism, Bolivarianism, Left-wing Nationalism |
The Clandestine Colombian Communist Party (in Spanish: Partido Comunista Clandestino Colombiano) is an underground communist party in Colombia. It is politically linked to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which founded the party in 2000, although a de facto After FARC officially broke with the Colombian Communist Party (CCP), a separate FARC-based party structure came into de facto existence during most of the 1990s, until the PCCC was officially founded in 2000. The party's founder and leader was FARC's commander Guillermo León Sáenz, also known as "Alfonso Cano", until he was killed in action in 2011.
As a result of attempted peace negotiations between FARC and the Colombian government in 1985, FARC, in conjunction with the Colombian Communist Party, founded the Patriotic Union (UP) as a legal political party that would participate in electoral politics. Although the formation of the UP was a provision of the negotiations with the government, the party was violently repressed by right-wing paramilitary groups as well as Colombian drug lords. Whatever optimism FARC held regarding entrance into mainstream politics was slowly abandoned as the UP all but disintegrated in the late-1980s.
Because FARC wished to maintain a rigid guiding ideology towards their struggle, they informally maintained a party structure known as the Bolivarian Movement for a New Colombia in the 1990s. This new emphasis on the figure of Simon Bolivar would later be incorporated into the official ideology of the PCCC. After the end of the Cold War, FARC would not abandon their ideological devotion to Marxism-Leninism but they did complement it with the nationalist Bolivarian sentiment. The transformation of this movement into the founding of the PCCC was officially announced by FARC in 2000.
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