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Communist Organization of Spain (Red Flag)

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Secretary-General
  
Ignasi Faura

Dissolved
  
1994 (1994)

Founded
  
1970 (1970)

Newspaper
  
Bandera Roja

Communist Organization of Spain (Red Flag)

Youth wing
  
Juventudes de Bandera Roja

Ideology
  
Marxism-Leninism Maoism Antifascism Federalism Republicanism

The Communist Organization of Spain (Bandera Roja) (Spanish: Organización Comunista de España (Bandera Roja), Catalan: Organització Comunista d'Espanya - Bandera Roja; OCE-BR), commonly known as Bandera Roja (red flag) was a Maoist communist party in Spain. The newspaper of the organization was Bandera Roja.

History

OCE-BR was founded in 1970 as a split of the PSUC by a sector of its youth wing. The original name was Communist Organization-Red Flag. In 1973 OCE-BR adopted its later name and expanded throughout all Spain. The main goal of the organization was a democratic revolution against the Franco regime, as a 1st step towards a full socialist revolution.

OCE-BR was legalized in late 1977. The same year the party suffered a split in Catalonia. The splitters, led by Joan Oms i Llohis, founded the Communist Collective of Catalonia. In 1989 OCE-BR joined the PSUC again, finally disappearing as an organization in 1994.

References

Communist Organization of Spain (Red Flag) Wikipedia