Communist Party (in Portuguese

Portuguese language

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: Partido Comunista Português (reconstruído)), initially known as Portuguese Communist Party (Reconstructed) (Partido Comunista Português (Reconstruído)), was a political party

Political party

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 in Portugal

Portugal

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. PCP(R) was founded at a unitary congress in December 1975, through the fusion of the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization

Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization

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, the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee

Popular Unity Party (Portugal)

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 and the Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)

Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)

Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party was a communist group in Portugal led by Francisco Martins Rodrigues...

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PCP(R) held its second congress in 1977. After the break between China

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 and Albania

Albania

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, PCP(R) sided with the Albanian Party of Labour

Albanian Party of Labour

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. The Communist Party of Brazil

Communist Party of Brazil

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 had a strong influence over PCP(R).

PC(R) published Bandeira Vermelha.

The youth league of PCP(R)/PC(R) was the Revolutionary Young Communist League

Revolutionary Young Communist League

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 (UJCR).

In 1992 PC(R) was renamed Communists for Democracy and Progress (Comunistas pela Democracia e Progresso). In 1995 CDP merged into the People's Democratic Union

People's Democratic Union (Portugal)

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