Paraguayan Communist Party

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Paraguayan Communist Party (in Spanish: Partido Comunista Paraguayo) a communist political party in Paraguay. PCP was founded on February 19, 1928. Later it was recognized as a section of the Communist International. It was brutally suppressed during the military regimes of the country. It gained legality for a brief period in 1936 and then again in 1946-1947. After the fall of the Stroessner regime the party was reemerged as a legal party.

In 1967 the party split, and the pro-China wing formed the Paraguayan Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist).

The general secretary of PCP is Ananías Maidana.

PCP was a founding member of United Left (IU) in 2002, but later it withdrew in 2003. However a fraction of PCP, Movimiento por la Recuperación Democrática del Partido Comunista Paraguayo, chosed to continue to work within IU. The withdrawal was motivated by differences over electoral strategy and candidature.

PCP publishes Adelante! (Forward).