Partido Comunista Colombiano
| Partido Comunista Colombiano | |
|---|---|
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| Party leader | Jaime Caycedo Turriago |
| founding | 17th July 1930 |
| newspaper | Voz |
| Alignment |
Marxism-Leninism , Communism |
| International connections | International meeting of communist and workers' parties |
| Website | www.pacocol.org |
The Partido Comunista Colombiano (PCC) (Colombian Communist Party) is a Colombian party founded in 1930 . She takes a Marxist-Leninist point of view.
history
The first communist groups already existed in Colombia after the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union in 1922. The party was founded in 1930 as the Colombian section of the Comintern under the name of the Communist Party of Colombia ( Partido Comunista de Colombia ). In 1991 it was renamed to its name that is still valid today.
persecution
For most of its existence the party had been persecuted and restricted in its activities by the Colombian state as well as by private individuals (mostly active and former government officials and supporters). It was severely weakened by paramilitary massacres and assassinations from the early 80s to the mid-90s.
elections
The party worked in an electoral alliance with the Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común ( German Alternative Revolutionary Force of Coexistence ) for the 2018 parliamentary election in Colombia . According to the peace treaty, this electoral alliance received ten guaranteed seats in Congress - five each in the Upper House ( House of Representatives ) and five in the Lower House ( Senate of the Republic of Colombia ). The voter share on March 11, 2018 was less than one percent, which can be considered a debacle as this result would not have been enough for regular seats.
Military activities
Following the assassination of the popular presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in 1948, serious unrest spread across Colombia, which was to lead to a conflict that lasted for several years and is known as La Violencia . Members of the Liberals as well as the PCC then organized self-defense groups and guerrilla units that fought against the units of the Conservative Party as well as against each other. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) emerged from the communist self-defense groups in 1964 . The FARC thus formed the armed arm of the PCC. Both organizations separated from each other in 1993.
It is known that 3 members of the PCC received military training from the Ministry for State Security of the GDR . This training was carried out in the working group of the Minister for State Security, special issues area , and had the aim of imparting a wide range of knowledge about infiltration and sabotage techniques to the participants.
General Secretaries
- 1932-1934 Luis Vidales
- 1934–1938 Ignacio Torres Giraldo
- 1938–1947 Augusto Durán
- 1947-1991 Gilberto Vieira White
- 1991–1992 Álvaro Vásquez del Real
- 1992–1994 Manuel Cepeda Vargas
- since 1994 Jaime Caycedo Turriago
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Trail of Death: 30 Years of Massacres in Colombia
- ↑ TeleSur report on the elections
- ↑ FAZ.net: Election debacle of the former Farc Guerilla
- ↑ Interview with Carlos Lozano
- ↑ Thomas Auerbach: Einsatzkommandos on the invisible front: Terror and sabotage preparations of the Stasi against the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin 2012, p. 81 ff. & Jürgen Borchert: The cooperation of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) with the Soviet KGB in the 70s and 80s, Berlin 2006, p. 198 ff.