Spanish Communist Workers' Party
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- For information on the PCOE formed in 1921 see the article Partido Comunista Obrero Español (1921).
Partido Comunista Obrero Español (PCOE, Spanish Communist Workers' Party) is a minor communist political 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 Unidad y Lucha.
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 referent of in Catalonia was Partit Comunista Obrer de Catalunya. PCOE had a youth organization called Communist Youth Federation of Spain (Federación de Jovenes Comunistas de España).
In the 1983 regional elections in Land of Valencia 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 Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España, PCOE chose to remain on the outside. In the 1980s, Líster and the majority of PCOE militants returned to the reformed PCE.[citation needed] PCPE and PCOE did not, however, have any major ideological differences, and PCOE merged with PCPE in 2000. In 2003 a group broke away from PCPE and re-constituted PCOE. Today the party publishes Teoría Socialista and Análisis.
