Died 1945 | ||
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Born 1879 ( 1879 ) Political party Portuguese Communist Party (until c. 1931)
National Union (from 1931) Occupation Union leader, politician, journalist Political parties Portuguese Communist Party, National Union | ||
José Carlos Rates (1879–1945) was one of the first General Secretaries of the Portuguese Communist Party, after the Party's foundation in 1921. Rates was chosen, in 1923, to lead the Party by the delegate of the Communist International in Portugal, Jules Humbert-Droz, after several problems inside the newly founded Party. He was replaced by Bento Gonçalves, in 1929, and later left the party. He joined the National Union in 1931.
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