Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses - Movimento Reorganizativo do Partido do Proletariado

Mural of the PCTP – MRPP

The Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses - Movimento Reorganizativo do Partido do Proletariado ([ pɐɾ'tidu kumu'niʃtɐ duʃ tɾɐbɐʎɐ'doɾɨʃ puɾtu'gezɨʃ / muvi'mẽtu ʁiɔɾgɐnizɐ'tivu du pɐɾu''tPɐɾ , PC'ul'tPɐɾ, PC'ulpɐɾtP ] duTP) German Communist Party of the Portuguese Working People - Movement to reorganize the Party of the Proletariat , is a former Maoist Portuguese party . The party, founded in 1970, had its peak shortly before and after the Carnation Revolution in 1974. Today it is an insignificant small party in the left-dominated Portuguese party landscape.

The origins of the party go back to the Movimento Reorganizativo do Partido do Proletariado (MRPP), which was founded on September 18, 1970, and its general secretary was Arnaldo Matos . At the time, the movement was particularly popular with students and young workers in the Lisbon area. At that time she was known above all for her Soviet-inspired wall pictures. At that time, the MRPP also had its most famous members, such as the former Portuguese Prime Minister and EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso and the presidential candidate of the Bloco de Esquerda of 2001, Fernando Rosas .

Immediately after the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974, the MRPP was accused of infiltration by the CIA by its greatest opponent, the Communist Party PCP . This was done for reasons of defamation, as both the MRPP and the Socialist Party were against the path of Moscow-based communism in Portuguese politics, which the PCP had propagated and taken. After the congress on December 26, 1976, the MRPP was renamed Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses - Movimento Reorganizativo do Partido do Proletariado (PCTP / MRPP), still under the leadership of Arnaldo Matos.

The PCTP / MRPP never played a special role after 1974. It had never been represented in the Portuguese parliament and achieved - compared to the major parties - only a very small percentage of the votes. Today the lawyer Garcia Pereira heads the party. The party is currently struggling with an amended law on political parties that requires a minimum of 5,000 members. Furthermore, the left party competition is very strong in Portugal. In addition to the Socialist Party, the Communists , the Greens and the left bloc are represented in parliament.

On February 26, 2019, the founder and longtime leader of the party Arnaldo Matos died.

The PCTP / MRPP publishes its own party newspaper, the "Luta Popular" (dt. Volkskampf ). The student organization Federação dos Estudantes Marxistas-Leninistas (German: Marxist-Leninist student organization ) has since disbanded.