Colombian Communist Party
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Colombian Communist Party
Partido Comunista Colombiano |
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| Leader | Jaime Caycedo |
| Founded | 1930 |
| Headquarters | Bogotá, Colombia |
| Newspaper | Voz |
| Ideology |
Communism Marxism–Leninism Bolivarianism |
| Political position | Left-wing to Far left |
| National affiliation | Marcha Patriótica |
| International affiliation |
Foro de São Paulo, International Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties International Communist Seminar |
| Website | |
| http://www.pacocol.org/ | |
| La Violencia |
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| Prelude |
| Murder of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán |
| El Bogotazo |
| Political Parties |
| Liberal Party |
| Conservative Party |
| Colombian Communist Party |
| Presidents of Colombia |
| Mariano Ospina Pérez |
| Laureano Gómez |
| Gustavo Rojas Pinilla |
The Colombian Communist Party (in Spanish: Partido Comunista Colombiano) or PCC is the legal communist party of Colombia. It was founded in 1930, as the Colombian section of the Comintern. It is currently led by Jaime Caycedo.
The PCC is part of the Social and Political Front (FSP) party coalition and, as August 2012, no longer participates in the Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA) alliance since the expelling of its members due to statutory infringement, namely, multiple affiliation to other parties.
PCC publishes the weekly newspaper Voz.
In the mid-1960s the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 13,000.
During and following the La Violencia civil war that erupted in Colombia from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, the communists developed organic links to several liberal guerrilla and irregular rural forces, most of whom nominally depended on the official Colombian Liberal Party and eventually demobilized by the end of that period. Those groups with more direct relations with the PCC tended to not demobilize, keeping their weapons and organizational structures mostly intact.
Later, in 1964, a section of these guerrillas would develop into the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP), which initially was considered as the official armed wing of the Communist party. The PCC leadership mostly operated in the cities during the 1960s and 1970s, but it supported the operations of the FARC, regularly holding solidarity and donation rallies for FARC members and units, as well as occasionally providing other forms of aid (supplies, equipment, intelligence, political cadres or ideological literature).
The PCC justified the operations of the guerrillas as the armed component of the fight against capitalism and imperialism in Colombia, while at the same time it continued to participate in legal electoral activities independently. Both activities were considered to have their own place within the so-called "combination of all forms of struggle", a concept often employed by PCC and FARC.
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