| Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España |
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| Leader | Carmelo Suárez |
| Founded | December 15, 1984 |
| Headquarters | Madrid, Spain |
| Ideology | Communism, Marxism-Leninism |
| International affiliation |
International Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties colours = Red |
| European affiliation | None |
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| www.pcpe.es | |
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Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (in Spanish: Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España) is a communist political party in Spain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of several Marxist-Leninist factions. The youth organization is called the Collectives of Communist Youth.
The PCPE considers that the installation of socialism and communism in the Spanish State, fundamental aim of our party, implies the realisation and consolidation of the democratic, anti-monopolist, anti-oligarchic, and anti-imperialistic revolution, pronouncing itself in favour of the unity of all forces of the social and political left in a common programme, upon the base of the recognition of all the rights of the different nationalities including the right to self-determination and whose proposal shall be the building of a Confederate Republic based upon the Leninist principle of voluntary union of the free peoples.
On December 13–15 of 1984 a "Communist Unity Congress" was held in Madrid. Partido Comunista de España Unificado (PCEU, Unified Communist Party of Spain), Movimiento de Recuperación del PCE (MRPCE, Movement for the Recuperation of the PCE), Movimiento para la Recuperación y Unificación del PCE (MRUPCE, Movement for the Recuperation and Unification of the PCE), Candidatura Comunista (CC, Communist Candidature), and some minor groups unified themselves, thus creating Partido Comunista (renamed PCPE in 1986).
All these groups had surged from splits from the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) during the 1970s and 1980s. Quickly after its foundation, PCPE was recognized by some other parties, such as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and other statebearing Eastern bloc parties. The party was formed by those who were against Santiago Carrillo's Eurocommunist line in the PCE. The Catalan referent of PCPE was initially Party of Communists of Catalonia (PCC), but it later broke with PCPE and now the Catalan referent is the Communist Party of the Peoples of Catalonia.
PCPE briefly joined Izquierda Unida in 1987. In 2000, the Spanish Communist Workers' Party (PCOE) merged with PCPE, and the publication of the united party became Unidad y Lucha.
PCPE publishes Unidad y Lucha and Propuesta Comunista (a theoretical journal). Before the PCOE-PCPE merger, the main publication of the party was Nuevo Rumbo.