For information on the PCOE formed in 1921 see the article Spanish Communist Workers' Party (1921)

Spanish Communist Workers' Party (1921)

The Spanish Communist Workers' Party was a communist party founded on April 13, 1921 by the terceristas, who had been trying to persuade the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party to join the Comintern...

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Partido Comunista Obrero Español (PCOE, Spanish Communist Workers' Party) is a minor communist

Communism

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 political party

Political party

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 in Spain

Spain

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. It was founded in 1973, when Enrique Líster

Enrique Líster

Enrique Líster Forján was a Spanish communist politician and military officer.-Early life:...

 (a Republican

Second Spanish Republic

The Second Spanish Republic was the government of Spain between April 14 1931, and its destruction by a military rebellion, led by General Francisco Franco....

 general in the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

) revolted against the Eurocommunist

Eurocommunism

Eurocommunism was a trend in the 1970s and 1980s within various Western European communist parties to develop a theory and practice of social transformation that was more relevant in a Western European democracy and less aligned to the influence or control of the Communist Party of the Soviet...

 line of Communist Party of Spain

Communist Party of Spain

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 (PCE) general secretary

General secretary

-International intergovernmental organizations:-International nongovernmental organizations:-Sports governing bodies:...

 Santiago Carrillo

Santiago Carrillo

Santiago Carrillo Solares is a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain from 1960 to 1982.- Childhood and early youth :...

. The party published Unidad y Lucha.

A catalyst for the split was the condemnation by the PCE of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia

Prague Spring

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 in 1968. PCOE was legalized in 1977, during the Spanish transition to democracy

Spanish transition to democracy

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. Its sister organisation in Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

 was the Partit Comunista Obrer de Catalunya. PCOE had a youth organization called the Communist Youth Federation of Spain

Communist Youth Federation of Spain

Communist Youth Federation of Spain was the youth wing of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party . FJCE published Lucha Juvenil....

 (Federación de Jóvenes Comunistas de España).

In the 1983 regional elections

Elections to the Corts Valencianes, 1983

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 in the Valencian Community

Valencian Community

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 PCOE obtained 6,416 votes (0.,34%). It had an electoral pact with Partido Comunista de España Unificado ahead of the regional elections

Elections to the Madrid Assembly, 1983

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 in Madrid

Madrid

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 of the same year. When PCEU and other groups unified themselves as the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain is a communist political party in Spain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of several Marxist-Leninist factions. The youth organization is called the Collectives of Communist Youth.On December 13–15 of 1984 a "Communist Unity Congress" was held...

, PCOE chose to remain on the outside. Today the party publishes Teoría Socialista and Análisis.