Spanish Communist Workers' Party
Partido Comunista Obrero Español
General SecretaryFrancisco Barjas
FounderEnrique Lister
Founded1973 (1973)
NewspaperTeoría Socialista and Análisis
Youth wingCommunist Youth Federation of Spain (FJCE)
Catalan wingCommunist Workers Party of Catalonia (PCOC)
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
Union wingAsamblea de Comités, Delegados y Trabajadores
Party flag
Website
www.pcoe.net
PCOE-FJCE banner in a demonstration at Palma de Mallorca in the 14 of November general strike in Spain.

The Spanish Communist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Comunista Obrero Español, PCOE) is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in Spain. It was founded in 1973, when Enrique Líster (a Republican general in the Spanish Civil War) revolted against the Eurocommunist line of Communist Party of Spain (PCE) general secretary Santiago Carrillo. The party published Análisis.

History

A catalyst for the split was the condemnation by the PCE of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968. PCOE was legalized in 1977, during the Spanish transition to democracy. Its sister organisation in Catalonia was the Partit Comunista Obrer de Catalunya. PCOE had a youth organization called the Communist Youth Federation of Spain (Federación de Jóvenes Comunistas de España).

In the 1983 regional elections in the Valencian Community PCOE obtained 6,416 votes (0.34%). It had an electoral pact with Partido Comunista de España Unificado ahead of the regional elections in Madrid of the same year. When PCEU and other groups unified themselves as the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain, PCOE chose not to participate in the merger.

Reintegration in the PCE and split

In 1985 the majority faction, led by Enrique Lister, decided to dissolve the party and rejoin the PCE,[1] in a congress where the 10,000 members of the PCOE were represented. The majority of the members followed Lister and rejoined the PCE; however, a minority faction decided that they weren't going to join the PCE and kept the party alive, although severely weakened.[2] Today the party publishes Teoría Socialista and Análisis.

The continued PCOE contested the 2015 Spanish elections, fielding candidates in two constituencies (Córdoba and Sevilla), and gaining 1,906 votes in total, and also competed in the 2016 Spanish general election, again only fielding candidates in Córdoba and Sevilla. In 2018 the party contested the Andalusian regional election, competing in the constituencies of Córdoba (975 votes, 0,26%) and Sevilla (2,230 votes, 0,25%).

At the April 2019 Spanish election the PCOE improved its election results compared to 2016. The party contested eight constituencies and gained 9.094 votes.[3]

In 2021 the PCOE is forming the Coalition for Communist Unity with the PCPE in the Madrid regional election.[4]

Electoral performance

Congreso de los Diputados
Election Votes % Seats
1982 25,830 0.12%
0 / 350
2015 1,909 0.01%
0 / 350
2016 1,822 0.01%
0 / 350
April 2019 9,094 0.03%
0 / 350
November 2019 9,664 0.04%
0 / 350
Autonomous communities
Election Community Votes % Seats Notes
1980 Catalonia 12,963 0.48%
0 / 135
1982 Andalusia 7,891 0.28%
0 / 109
1983 Balearic Islands 1,509 0.49%
0 / 54
1983 Castile and León 1,974 0.14%
0 / 84
 In a coalition with the Unified Communist Party of Spain
1983 Castilla-La Mancha 579 0.06%
0 / 44
 In a coalition with the Unified Communist Party of Spain
1983 Extremadura 1,463 0.26%
0 / 65
 In a coalition with the Unified Communist Party of Spain
1983 Madrid 4,473 0.19%
0 / 94
1983 Valencia 5,945 0.31%
0 / 89
1984 Catalonia 2,593 0.09%
0 / 135
2018 Andalusia 3,205 0.09%
0 / 109
2021 Madrid 878 0.02%
0 / 136
 As part of the Coalition for Communist Unity together with the PCPE

References

  1. ↑ El partido comunista de Líster se integrará en abril en el PCE, El País, 21 de marzo de 1986.
  2. ↑ Líster califica de "regreso a casa" la reintegración en el PCE.
  3. ↑ "Consulta de resultados electorales. Ministerio del Interior". www.infoelectoral.mir.es. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  4. ↑ "Ante las Elecciones del 4M en la Comunidad de Madrid, trabajemos por la unidad comunista – PCOE" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-04-20.
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