Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist–Leninist)

Defunct Portuguese communist party

Communist Party of Portugal

Partido Comunista de Portugal (Marxista-Leninista)

Founded| 1970
Dissolved| 1980
Preceded by| Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee
Newspaper| People's Unit
Ideology|

* Communism
* Marxism-Leninism
* Maoism
* Anti-revisionism

Political position| Far-left

* Politics of Portugal
* Political parties
* Elections

The Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist–Leninist) (Portuguese: Partido Comunista de Portugal (Marxista-Leninista)) was an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in Portugal. Also known as the 'Mendes faction of PCP(M-L)'.

## History

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PCP(M-L) was founded in 1970.[1] It published Unidade Popular.[2] In May 1974 Eduíno Vilar (real name Heduíno Gomes) was expelled. He set up his own PCP(m-l). Like the main PCP(M-L), Vilar's PCP(M-L) had a publication titled Unidade Popular. In 1974 a splinter group broke away from the party, forming the Popular Unity Party. At the time of the 1976 elections PCP(M-L) launched the slogan "For Independence, For Democracy, For Social Progress! - Vote for the lists presented by PCP(m-l)!" (Pela independência pela democracia, pelo progresso social! - vota nas listas apresentadas pelo PCP (m-l)!)[citation needed]

In May 1974 the general secretary of the Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist–Leninist) (in Portuguese: Partido Comunista de Portugal (Marxista-Leninista)) was expelled, forming his own similarly-named party. Like the other PCP(M-L), Vilar's PCP(M-L) had a publication titled Unidade Popular.[citation needed]

PCP(M-L) claimed that after the Carnation Revolution, the main threat to Portugal came from social fascism (represented through PCP leader Álvaro Cunhal) and Soviet social imperialism. The party supported the Socialist Party against PCP.[citation needed]

On November 17, 1974, Vilar's party launched the Worker-Peasant Alliance (AOC).[3] The party took part in elections through AOC, since the name PCP(M-L) was taken by their adversaries.[citation needed]

Vilar's party had close relations to the Chinese Communist Party.[citation needed] It led the Democratic Portugal-China Friendship Association (ADAP-C).[citation needed]

At the VIII congress of the Party in March 1980 it was decided to dissolve the PCP(m-l).[4]

## See also

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* Democratic Portugal – China Friendship Association

## References

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1. ^ "Cronologia | Extrema Esquerda | RTP". Extrema Esquerda (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 20 October 2024.
2. ^ Accornero, Guya (1 April 2016). The Revolution before the Revolution: Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal. Berghahn Books. p. 134\. ISBN 978-1-78533-115-2. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
3. ^ Partidos e movimentos políticos em Portugal (in Brazilian Portuguese). Sociedade de Estudos e Publicações. 1975. p. 130. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
4. ^ Barreto da Costa, Pedro Manuel (November 2022). “Caem os Muros, Caem as Vontades?” - A reconfiguração da esquerda revolucionária em Portugal: o caso do Partido Comunista Português (Reconstruído) (1974-1995). Mestrado em História Moderna e Contemporânea (PDF). ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. p. 35. Retrieved 23 June 2025.

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Defunct political parties in Portugal

Constitutional Monarchy (1834–1910)|

* Cartista
* Constituent Party
* Historic Party
* Liberal Regenerator Party
* Miguelist
* Portuguese Republican Party
* Portuguese Socialist Party
* Progressive Dissidence
* Progressive Party
* Reformist Party
* Regenerator Party
* Setembrismo

First Republic (1910–1926)|

* Catholic Centre Party
* Democratic Leftwing Republican Party
* Democratic Party
* Evolutionist Party
* Integralismo Lusitano
* Causa Monárquica
* National Republican Party
* Nationalist Republican Party
* Reconstitution Party
* Regionalist Party
* Republican Liberal Party
* Republican Union
* Union of Economic Interests

Ditadura Nacional (1926–1933)|

* National Syndicalists

Estado Novo (1933–1974)|

* Movement of Democratic Unity
* Movement of National Antifascist Unity
* National Union
* Portuguese Marxist–Leninist Committee
* Portuguese National Liberation Front
* Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat - Revolutionary Brigades

Third Republic (1974–)|

* Alliance
* Christian Democratic Party
* Communist Electoral Front
* Communist Party (Reconstructed)
* Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist–Leninist)
* Democratic Party of the Atlantic
* Democratic Renewal Party
* Democratic Republican Party
* Hope for Portugal Movement
* Humanist Party
* Independent Movement for the National Reconstruction / Party of the Portuguese Right
* Independent Social Democratic Action
* Internationalist Communist League
* Left-wing Union for the Socialist Democracy
* Left Revolutionary Front
* Marxist–Leninist Committee of Portugal
* Movement for the Sick
* Movement of Socialist Left
* National Solidarity Party
* New Democracy Party
* People's Socialist Front
* Politics XXI
* Popular Democratic Union
* Popular Unity Party
* Portuguese Democratic Labour Party
* Portuguese Democratic Movement
* Portuguese Marxist–Leninist Communist Organization
* Revolutionary Socialist Party
* Rise Up!
* Worker–Peasant Alliance
* Workers Politics Communist Organisation
* Workers' Revolutionary Party

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