The Communist Party of Spain is a communist party that, since 1986, has been part of the United Left coalition, which is currently part of Sumar. Two of its politicians are Spanish government ministers: Yolanda Díaz and Sira Rego.
The Galician Nationalist Bloc is a political party from Galicia, formed with the merger of a series of left-wing Galician nationalist parties. It is self-defined as a "patriotic front".
The Spanish Communist Workers' Party is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in Spain. It was founded in 1973, when Enrique Líster revolted against the Eurocommunist line of Communist Party of Spain (PCE) general secretary Santiago Carrillo. The party published Análisis.
Esquerda Unida, EU is the Galician federation of the Spanish left-wing political and social movement United Left. Eva Solla is the current General Coordinator. The PCG is the major member of the coalition.
Communist Party of National Liberation was a separatist political party in Galicia, Spain. PCLN was founded on 25 July 1986 by the 22 March Communist Collective. The collective had been launched earlier by 13 Central Committee members of the Galician People's Union (UPG) left UPG in protest of the decision of the Galician Nationalist Bloc to participate in the Galician parliament. Front figures of the collective was Mariano Abalo, general secretary of UPG, and Xan Carballo, general secretary of INTG.
The Galician People's Union is a Galician nationalist and communist political party, and is one of the registered political parties of Spain. The party publishes the magazine Terra e Tempo, and the secretary general is Néstor Rego.
The Galician People's Front is a Galician political organization with a socialist and independentist ideology.
Benigno Álvares. Leader and founder of Galician Communist Party, Galician antifascist activist and partisan against Francisco Franco. This veterinary surgeon became provincial secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in Ourense (Galicia) and president of the Provincial Peasant Federation, throughout the Second Spanish Republic. After the military coup in 1936 and the overthrow of Galicia by the franquist domain, he was haunted until his death by the local fascists, in 1937. His corpse was then shown by Civil Guard, tied to a truck, with a sign saying "Here's the Maceda's veterinary surgeon. Communism has died in Ourense".
The Land Party is a Galician political party that was established in 2011.
Santiago Álvarez Gómez (1913–2002) was a Spanish communist and founder of the Communist Party of Galicia. He had been a member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and one of the commissars of the 1st Mixed Brigade of the Spanish Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War.
Renewal–Nationalist Brotherhood is a political party in Galicia. Formed in 2012, under the guidance of historical leader Xosé Manuel Beiras, Anova was formed by Encontro Irmandiño, the FPG, Movemento pola Base, the Galician Workers Front, and independents. Anova defines itself as a Galician nationalist, socialist, feminist, ecologist, internationalist organization and advocates for Galician independence. Its internal organization is run by assemblies.
The Galician Socialist Party was a socialist and Galician nationalist political party active in Galicia.
Galician Workers' Front is a Galician political organization. It was formed in 2010 by militants of the trade union world, mainly of the Confederación Intersindical Galega (CIG). The organization was integrated in the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) until 2012, when the FOGA abandoned the BNG and was one of the three parties that formed Renewal–Nationalist Brotherhood.
The 1981 Galician regional election was held on Tuesday, 20 October 1981, to elect the 1st Parliament of the autonomous community of Galicia. All 71 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a Statute of Autonomy referendum in Andalusia.
Communist Movement of Galicia was a communist political party created in Galicia during the last years of the dictatorship of Franco as the Galician section of the Communist Movement, although in practice the MCG acted as an independent party. The leaders of the MCG were Xesús Veiga Buxán and Carmen Santos Castroviejo. Unlike other sections of Spanish left-wing political parties, the MCG was close to the Galician nationalist movement and supported self-determination and national sovereignty for Galicia.
The Communist Party of the Galician People is a Galician political organization with a communist and independentist ideology founded in 1984.
En Marea was a political party and former political alliance integrated by Podemos, Anova, United Left of Galicia, and some municipal alliances that participated in the 2015 Spanish local elections. It was formed in November 2015 as an electoral coalition to contest the 2015 Spanish general election in Galicia. As part of the coalition agreement with Podemos, the name on the ballot paper for both the 2015 and 2016 general elections was Podemos–En Marea–Anova–EU.
Communist Party of Galicia (Revolutionary Marxist) (in Galician: Partido Comunista de Galicia (Marxista-Revolucionario), PCG-MR) was a communist political party in Galiza, founded by the followers of Santiago Carrillo after their expulsion from the Communist Party of Galicia (PCG) in October 1985.
Yolanda Díaz Pérez is a Spanish politician and labour lawyer, currently serving as Second Deputy Prime Minister since 2021, and Minister of Labour and Social Economy of the Government of Spain since 2020. A longtime member of the Communist Party of Spain, in 2023 she founded the electoral platform Sumar, as well as its instrumental party Movimiento Sumar, resigning as the leader of the alliance in 2024. She has been a member of the Congress of Deputies since 2016, having previously been a Ferrol municipal councillor (2003–2012) and member of the Parliament of Galicia (2012–2016). She was also the National Coordinator of Esquerda Unida (EU) from 2005 to 2017.
Ángel Guerreiro Carreiras, mostly known by the forename Anxo and nicknamed "Geluco", was a Spanish politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Galicia for the Communist Party of Galicia (1981–1985) and the Left of Galicia (1997–2001), and led both parties.
