Partido Comunista del Ecuador
| Partido Comunista del Ecuador | |
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| Party leader | Gustavo Iturralde |
| founding | May 23, 1926 |
| Alignment |
Marxism-Leninism , Communism |
| International connections | International meeting of communist and workers' parties |
| Website | pcecuadorcc.blogspot.com |
The Partido Comunista del Ecuador (PCE) is an Ecuadorian party founded in 1926 . She takes a Marxist-Leninist point of view. It was founded in 1926 as Partido Socialista del Ecuador and in 1931 as the PCE.
history
The forerunners of the Communist and Socialist Parties of Ecuador were the Núcleo Socialista de Pichincha and Sección Comunista de Propaganda y Acción Lenin , founded in Quito in September 1925 , which in turn were mainly supported by the activists of the short-lived newspaper La Antorcha (including Ricardo Paredes , Leonardo Muñoz and the poet Jorge Carrera Andrade ). The Mexican politician and diplomat Rafael Ramos Pedrueza was the godfather of the Sección Comunista . The Sección Comunista disbanded soon after Ramos Pedrueza's recall from Ecuador, while in 1926 the Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano (PSE), the Socialist Party of Ecuador, was founded. When it was founded, the party was internally divided. She joined the Communist International in the second attempt , at whose sixth congress Ricardo Paredes was the only Ecuadorian representative, after the more socialist / left-liberalist General Secretary Carrera Andrade was not granted a visa for the Soviet Union in time. As a result, Paredes replaced Carrera Andrade as general secretary and pursued a course of orienting the PSE as a communist party, which in 1929 was renamed Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano, sección de la III Internacional Comunista . In 1931 there was a break between revolutionary communists loyal to Moscow and more reform-oriented “socialists” in the party, which was subsequently renamed “Partido Comunista del Ecuador” under the leadership of Paredes. In 1933 the Socialist Party was re-established by members who did not follow the line of the Communist Party.
The party achieved its greatest success in the parliamentary elections in 1944, when it won 15 of 85 seats. As a successor, Nela Martínez became the first female member of parliament in the history of Ecuador in 1945. In 1946 the party was banned and many members were arrested. During the presidency of Galo Plaza Lasso it was re-admitted a few years later and banned again in the 1960s by the military junta under Ramón Castro Jijón . During this second phase of the ban, the Maoist Partido Comunista Marxista Leninista del Ecuador split off from the PCE in 1964 . After the permanent return to democracy after 1978, the Communist Party, as an important part of the Coalition Frente Amplio de Izquierda (FADI), again achieved parliamentary participation in the 1986 parliamentary elections. FADI merged with the Socialist Party of Ecuador in 1995 .
Today the Partido Comunista del Ecuador has lost considerable influence and is only influential in a few areas and mostly in electoral alliances. Only the Juventudes Comunistas del Ecuador and the trade union work of the communists in the Confederación de Trabajadores del Ecuador are of greater importance.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marc Becker, Indigenous Nationalities in Ecuadorian Marxist Thought (PDF; 493 kB), A Contracorriente Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2008, pp. 1-46, here: pp. 14ff.