Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast explained

Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast
Colorcode:	B0241D
Leader:	Achy Ekissi
Youth Wing:	Jeunesse Communiste de Côte d'Ivoire
International:	ICMLPO
Newspaper:	Révolution Prolétarienne
Country:	Ivory Coast

The Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast (French: Parti Communiste Révolutionnaire de Côte d'Ivoire, PCRCI) is a communist party in Ivory Coast. It has been led by Achy Ekissi since 1990.^[1] Its youth wing is the Communist Youth of Ivory Coast. The party newspaper is the French: Révolution Prolétarienne.

Internationally, it participates in the International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations,^[2] an international network of Communist parties that uphold the line of Enver Hoxha and the Albanian Party of Labour. As such, it is staunchly anti-revisionist.

The party claimed that the French troops acted as accomplices of the former President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo during the 2004 French–Ivorian clashes.^[3]

Sources

• Sur la Reprise de la Guerre Civile en Cote D'ivoire et les Tueries Perpétrées par l'Armée Française Abidjan Addresse du PCRCI aux Partis et Organisations Communistes, 8 novembre 2004, (Address by Secretary General of the PCRCI, A. EKISSI) (in French)
• Rapport de la Commission d’enquête internationale sur les allégations de violations des droits de l’homme en Côte d’Ivoire (May 2004) on fr.wikisource

External links

• • mltranslations.org maintains a web page of PCRCI statements from 1995–2007

Notes and References

1. Web site: Leftist Parties of the World: Côte d'Ivoire . Leftist Parties of the World . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606062759/https://www.broadleft.org/ci.htm . 6 June 2011.
2. Web site: December 1997 . International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations . 20 May 2023 . La Forge.
3. Web site: 30 March 2004 . Statement by the Revolutionary Communist Party of the Ivory Coast . 2023-05-20 . www.revolutionarydemocracy.org.