Partido Comunista de Espana
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Communist Party of Spain
Partido Comunista de España |
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| General Secretary | Enrique Santiago |
| Honorary President |
Dolores Ibárruri (eternal title) |
| Founder | Jules Humbert-Droz |
| Founded | 14 November 1921 |
| Merger of |
Spanish Communist Party Spanish Communist Workers' Party |
| Headquarters | C/Olimpo, 35 28043 Madrid |
| Newspaper |
Mundo Obrero Nuestra Bandera |
| Youth wing | Communist Youth Union of Spain (UJCE) |
| Membership (2017) | 10,500 |
| Ideology |
Communism Marxism-Leninism Internationalism Republicanism Federalism Feminism Laïcité |
| National affiliation |
Popular Front (1936–39) United Left (1986–present) |
| European affiliation | Party of the European Left |
| International affiliation |
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties International Communist Seminar |
| European Parliament group | European United Left–Nordic Green Left |
| Colours | Red |
| Congress of Deputies |
5 / 350
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| Senate |
1 / 266
Inside En Marea
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| European Parliament |
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The Communist Party of Spain (Spanish: Partido Comunista de España; PCE) is a historically Marxist-Leninist party that, since 1986, is part of the United Left coalition.
The PCE was founded by 1921, after a split in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español; PSOE). The PCE was founded by those who opposed the social democratic wing of the PSOE, because it did not support the PSOE's integration in the Communist International founded by Vladimir Lenin two years prior. The PCE was a merger of the Spanish Communist Party (Spanish: Partido Comunista Español and the Spanish Communist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Comunista Obrero Español). The PCE was first legalized after the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931. The republic was the first democratic regime in the history of Spain. The PCE gained a lot of support in the months before the Spanish coup of July 1936, which marked the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, and it was a major force during the war as well. The Republicans lost and Franco established a military dictatorship, under which the PCE was one of the most heavily repressed parties, with specific laws banning communist parties, among others.
Under the dictatorship, the PCE was the main opposition to the Francoist dictatorship. At the time, the Communist Party of Spain defended the restoration of a democratic republic, attracting many left-leaning Spaniards who were not necessarily communsits themselves. In the early years of the dictatorship, many PCE members joined the Spanish Maquis, a group of guerillas whose fought against the regime. Years later, the Maquis' power declined, and the PCE abandoned the military strategy. Instead, it chose to interfere in the only legal syndicate (which was part of the Francoist apparatus), the Vertical Syndicate. A lot of workers clandestinely joined the PCE, who were not necessarily communists themselves, but saw the PCE as the only party who could restore democracy in Spain.
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