Paraguayan Communist Party (independent) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independente) | |
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| Abbreviation | PCP |
| Founder | Oscar Creydt |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Legalised | 1989 |
| Split from | Paraguayan Communist Party |
| Newspaper | Unidad Paraguaya |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | ICOR |
Paraguayan Communist Party (independent) (in Spanish: Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) is a communist political party in Paraguay. PCP(i) was founded in 1967 as a split from the Paraguayan Communist Party (PCP). Since the defeat of the guerrilla groups led by the party in 1963, opposition to Creydt in the PCP had grown. He was first criticised for his authoritarian behaviour and later for his anti-Cuban and pro-Chinese positions. He was deposed as secretary general in August 1965 and excluded from the party in 1967. His party faction first kept the same name as the pro-soviet faction but since 1973 “independent” was added to the party name. Many of the activities of the PCP(i) were directed against the PCP. The party was subjected to harsh repression by the regime of Alfredo Stroessner. It publishes “Unidad Paraguaya”. When Creydt died in 1987 the party was very weak. When Stroessner fell in 1989 the party stayed in a semi-clandestinity.
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