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Communist Party of Madrid (in Spanish: Partido Comunista de Madrid), is the federation of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in the Community of Madrid.
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Communist Party of Madrid (in Spanish: Partido Comunista de Madrid), is the federation of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in the Community of Madrid.
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The International Brigades were military units set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. The organization existed for two years, from 1936 until 1938. It is estimated that during the entire war, between 40,000 and 59,000 members served in the International Brigades, including 15,000 who died in combat.
A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or nation. The activities of a fifth column can be overt or clandestine. Forces gathered in secret can mobilize openly to assist an external attack. This term is also extended to organised actions by military personnel. Clandestine fifth column activities can involve acts of sabotage, disinformation, or espionage executed within defense lines by secret sympathizers with an external force.
The Communist Party of Spain is a Marxist-Leninist party that, since 1986, has been part of the United Left coalition, which is part of Unidas Podemos.
Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, known as la Pasionaria, was a Spanish Republican fighter of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and a communist politician known for her famous slogan ¡No Pasarán! issued during the Battle for Madrid in November 1936.
Santiago José Carrillo Solares was a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) from 1960 to 1982. His role in the Paracuellos massacres during the Civil War was particularly controversial. He was exiled during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, becoming a leader of the democratic opposition to the regime. His role as leader of the PCE would later make him a key figure in the transition to democracy. He later embraced Eurocommunism and democratic socialism, and was a member of the Congress of Deputies from 1977 to 1986.
Partido Comunista Obrero Español is a minor communist political 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.
The Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) was a communist political party in Spain, formed in 1964 through the merger of splinter groups of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE).
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain is a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Spain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of several Marxist-Leninist factions. The youth organization is called the Communist Youth of the Peoples of Spain.
The Party of Communist Unification in the Canaries was a communist party working for the political autonomy of the Canary Islands. PUCC appeared sometime in 1975, and held its first conference in 1978. PUCC originated from OPI a leftist split of the Communist Party of Spain. PUCC worked underground during caudillo Francisco Franco's Spanish State. The leader of PUCC was Paco Tovar Santos, and its internal bulletin was called Comunista ("Communist").
Willy Enrique Meyer Pleite is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Izquierda Unida. He is a member of the bureau of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries, Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Petitions. He is a substitute for the Committee on Development.
Communist Youth Federation of Spain was the youth wing of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party (PCOE). FJCE published Lucha Juvenil.
The siege of Madrid was a two and a half year siege of the Republican controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the right-wing coalition Nationalist armies under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939. The city, besieged from October 1936, fell to the Nationalist armies on 28 March 1939. The Battle of Madrid in November 1936 saw the most intense fighting in and around the city when the Nationalists made their most determined attempt to take the Republican capital.
María Cristina Almeida Castro is a Spanish lawyer and politician.
Fernando Claudín Pontes was a Spanish communist ideologist and historian best known for his two volume study The Communist Movement: From Comintern to Cominform.
Ángel Pérez Martínez is a Spanish United Left (IU) politician. He is the organisation's spokesman on Madrid City Council, after having developed different positions inside the organisation. He is also a member of the Communist Party of Spain(PCE).
United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986, bringing together several left-wing political organizations.
Organization of Communist Left was a communist political party in Spain founded in 1974. The OIC was a continuation of the existing Communist Workers Circles (COC), whose roots were in the Workers' Front of Catalonia (FOC), the Catalan version of the People's Liberation Front.
United Left of Cantabria is the Cantabrian federation of the Spanish left wing political and social movement United Left. Jorge Crespo is the current General Coordinator. The Communist Party of Cantabria and Izquierda Abierta.
Zero Cuts is a Spanish eco-socialist and christian left party alliance, initially founded as a group of electors, formed to contest the 2014 European Parliament election. Subsequently, it has contested the 2015 and 2016 general elections together with The Greens–Green Group. It is supported by the Communist Unification of Spain. In the 2019 Spanish general election, the filmmaker Fernando Colomo was the Madrid candidate to the Spanish Senate for the coalition Zero Cuts – Grupo Verde – Partido Castellano – Tierra Comunera. His aim was to promote the list rather than becoming elected.
Republican Popular Unity was a Spanish electoral candidacy formed to contest the 1986 general election by the Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) and Republican Convention of the Peoples of Spain (CRPE).
