Suvarna Garge (Editor)

Party of Labour of Catalonia

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Dissolved
  
1980 (1980)

National affiliation
  
Party of Labour of Spain

Founded
  
1969

Ideology
  
Marxism-leninism Maoism Catalanism

Headquarters
  
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

The Party of Labour of Catalonia (Catalan: Partit del Treball de Catalunya) was a communist party in Catalonia, Spain. PTC was formed in 1979 following a split from the Party of Labour of Spain (PTE). The leader of PTC was Joan Sánchez Carreté.

PTC soon merged with the Marxist Unification Movement (MUM) and formed the Catalan Workers Bloc (BCT). The group that remained in PTE also called itself PTC, and contested the 1979 parliamentary elections as "Partit del Treball de Catalunya (Federación del Partido del Trabajo de España)". In Catalan Parliament election, 1980 the party supported and participated in the electoral candidacy Unity for Socialism.

References

Party of Labour of Catalonia Wikipedia