Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist–Leninist)

Defunct Portuguese communist party

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Communist Party of Portugal

Partido Comunista de Portugal (Marxista-Leninista)

Founded| 1970
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. It published Unidade Popular.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)!)

### 1974

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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.

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.

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

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

## See also

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* Democratic Portugal – China Friendship Association

## References

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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–)|

* 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
* Worker–Peasant Alliance
* Workers Politics Communist Organisation
* Workers' Revolutionary Party

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