José Carlos Rates
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José Carlos Rates was one of the first General Secretaries of the Portuguese Communist Party, a few years after the Party's foundation in 1921. Rates was chosen, perhaps in 1923, (this period of the Party's history is badly known) to lead the Party by the delegate of the Communist International in Portugal, Jules Humbert-Droz, after several problems inside the newly founded Party. Later, Bento António Gonçalves would become the party's General Secretary and criticize Rates' work.