Communist Organization of Spain (Red Flag)
Organización Comunista de España (Bandera Roja) |
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Secretary-General | Ignasi Faura |
Founded | 1970 |
Dissolved | 1994 |
Newspaper | Bandera Roja |
Youth wing | Juventudes de Bandera Roja |
Ideology |
Marxism-Leninism Maoism Antifascism Federalism Republicanism |
Political position | Radical Left |
Trade union affiliation | Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) |
The Communist Organization of Spain (Bandera Roja) (Spanish: Organización Comunista de España (Bandera Roja), Catalan: Organització Comunista d'Espanya - Bandera Roja; OCE-BR), commonly known as Bandera Roja (red flag) was a Maoist communist party in Spain. The newspaper of the organization was Bandera Roja.
OCE-BR was founded in 1970 as a split of the PSUC by a sector of its youth wing. The original name was Communist Organization-Red Flag. In 1973 OCE-BR adopted its later name and expanded throughout all Spain. The main goal of the organization was a democratic revolution against the Franco regime, as a 1st step towards a full socialist revolution.
OCE-BR was legalized in late 1977. The same year the party suffered a split in Catalonia. The splitters, led by Joan Oms i Llohis, founded the Communist Collective of Catalonia. In 1989 OCE-BR joined the PSUC again, finally disappearing as an organization in 1994.