Communist Unification of Spain
Unificación Comunista de España |
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Founded | 1973 |
Headquarters | Spain |
Newspaper |
Foros XXI Chispas De Verdad |
Ideology |
Marxism–Leninism Mao Tse-Tung Thought |
Political position | Far-left |
Colors | Red |
Website | |
www.deverdaddigital.com www.chispasrevolucionarias.com |
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Communist Unification of Spain (Spanish: Unificación Comunista de España, Basque: Komunisten Batasuna) is a political party in Spain. The group emerged around the publication Tribuna Obrera in 1968. It was constituted as UCE in 1973. Its ideological line is Marxist-Leninist and Mao Zedong Thought.
During the Spanish transition to democracy, UCE was active in a process of unity with the Communist Movement of Spain (MCE). That relationship broke down. At the first UCE congress in 1979, the group decided to put all its efforts into building its own party. In the 1977 elections, UCE supported the Democratic Left Front (FDI). From 1979 to 1986 and from 2003 to 2004 they called for a vote for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), from 1989 to 2000 they called for a vote for United Left (IU), and then for Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) in 2008. In the Spanish local and regional elections, 2011 they ran for elections in 34 municipalities and 7 Autonomous regions, obtaining a total of 8,925 votes.
UCE publishes and sells a variety of newspapers which it uses to fund its political campaigns: