Spanish Communist Workers' Party (1921) Explained

Spanish Communist Workers' Party
Colorcode:Red
Foundation:13 April 1921
Split:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Merged:Spanish Communist Party
Dissolved:14 November 1921
Ideology:Communism
Marxism
Position:Far-left
Country:Spain

The Spanish Communist Workers' Party (Partido Comunista Obrero Español) was a communist party founded on April 13, 1921 by the terceristas, including Virginia González Polo, Daniel Anguiano, Eduardo Torralba Beci, Manuel Núñez Arenas, Luis Mancebo and Evaristo Gil,[1] who had been trying to persuade the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) to join the Third International. When the PSOE Congress voted to join the Vienna International and refused Bolshevism, the terceristas broke away.

A new Communist Party of Spain was founded on November 14, 1921 through an act of merger of Partido Comunista Español and Partido Comunista Obrero Español. The unified PCE soon adhered to the Comintern.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Víctor, Alba. The Communist Party in Spain. Transaction Publishers. 1983. 1412819997. 46–47.