Congolese Labour Party
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Congolese Party of Labour
Parti congolais du travail |
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| Leader | Denis Sassou Nguesso |
| Founded | 29 December 1969 |
| Headquarters | Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo |
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Currently: Left-wing nationalism Democratic socialism Historically: Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Colors | Red |
| National Assembly |
89 / 139
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| Website | |
| www.particongolaisdutravail.org | |
The Congolese Party of Labour (French: Parti congolais du travail; PCT), founded in 1969 by Marien Ngouabi, is the ruling political party of the Republic of the Congo. It was originally a Marxist-Leninist pro-Soviet party, which founded the People's Republic of the Congo, but moved towards a moderate left-wing stance in the early 1990s. Denis Sassou Nguesso is President of the PCT Central Committee, and Pierre Ngolo is the PCT's Secretary-General.
The PCT was founded by President Ngouabi on 29 December 1969 and was Congo-Brazzaville's sole ruling party from the moment of its creation. From the outset, it was heavily dominated by military officers from the sparsely populated north of Congo-Brazzaville. Although the PCT regime was designed as a Soviet-style socialist party-state, it was essentially a military regime with a strongly ethno-regional character. Members of the southern ethnic groups, who were far more numerous than northerners, were included in the power structure, but the top leaders were consistently northerners.
Ideologically, the party represented a spectrum of Marxist-Leninist views and suffered from internecine struggles in the 1970s, which sometimes turned violent. Some leaders on the left-wing of the party, such as Ange Diawara and [[C laude-Ernest Ndalla]], favored a radical pro-Chinese position; they unsuccessfully attempted a coup d'etat against Ngouabi in February 1972. The right-wing of the party, which was derided as having only a Intelligence commitment to Marxism-Leninism, was represented by Joachim Yhombi Opango; the 1972 plot was inspired by the left-wing's loathing for Yhombi Opango.
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