Party of Labour of Catalonia

Party of Labour of Catalonia
Partit del Treball de Catalunya
Founded 1969
Dissolved 1980
Ideology Marxism-leninism
Maoism
Catalanism
National affiliation Party of Labour of Spain[1]
Politics of Catalonia
Political parties
Elections

Party of Labour of Catalonia (in Catalan: Partit del Treball de Catalunya) was a communist party in Catalonia, Spain. PTC was formed in 1979 following a split from the Party of Labour of Spain (PTE). The leader of PTC was Joan Sánchez Carreté.

PTC soon merged with the Marxist Unification Movement (MUM) and formed the Catalan Workers Bloc (BCT). The group that remained in PTE also called itself PTC, and contested the 1979 parliamentary elections as "Partit del Treball de Catalunya (Federación del Partido del Trabajo de España)".[2] In Catalan Parliament election, 1980 the party supported and participated in the electoral candidacy Unity for Socialism.

References

  1. Until 1977.
  2. http://blocpavellorepublica.ub.edu/2014/10/06/fons-partit-del-treball-de-catalunya-arxiu-pa-treball-i-llibertat-nou-material-darxiu-rebut-al-crai-biblioteca-pavello-de-la-republica/