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Angolan Communist Party

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Founded
  
October 1955

Political position
  
Far-left

Merged into
  
MPLA

Leader
  
Mário Pinto de Andrade Joaquim Pinto de Andrade

Ideology
  
Communism Marxism-Leninism

Angolan Communist Party (in Portuguese: Partido Comunista Angolano) was an underground political party in Portuguese Angola (during the Estado Novo regime), founded in October 1955, under influence from the Portuguese Communist Party. PCA was led by the brothers Mário Pinto de Andrade and Joaquim Pinto de Andrade (a Catholic priest). PCA set up clandestine schools and libraries in Luanda, and established branches in Catete and Malanje.

In December 1956 it merged into the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).

References

Angolan Communist Party Wikipedia