Voltaic Communist Organization Explained

Voltaic Communist Organization
Native Name:Organisation communiste voltaïque
Colorcode:Red
Foundation:1971
Dissolved:1978
Successor:Union of Communist Struggles
Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party
Ideology:Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Country:Burkina Faso
Position:Far-left

The Voltaic Communist Organization (OCV) was a communist party in the country now known as Burkina Faso. It was founded in 1971 out of the student milieu. In 1978 OCV split in two, the pro-China Communist Struggle Union (ULC) and the pro-Albanian Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party (PCRV).