The Communist Collective of Catalonia ( ca, Col·lectiu Comunista de Catalunya, abbreviated CCC) was a political organization in
Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy.
Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
. It was formed in 1977 as a split from the Communist Organization of Spain (Bandera Roja) (OCE (BR)). Leaders of CCC included Joan Oms, Antoni Montserrat, Maria Olivares and Consol Casals. CCC published ''Quaderns de Debat''.
History
The group contested the 1979 municipal elections with the candidature ''Comunistes de Catalunya'' ('Communists of Catalonia'), winning 14,529 votes (0,55% of the votes in Catalonia) but no seats.Ministerio del Interior. Municipales > Abril 1979 / C.A. Cataluña ' Most of the votes came from
Barcelona Province
Barcelona (, ) is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The province is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Lleida, and Girona, and by the Mediterranean Sea. Its area is . In the Barcelona City municipal election the candidature got 6,148 votes (0.77%). In
Badalona
Badalona (, , , ) is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality to the immediate north east of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It is located on the left bank of the Besòs River and on the Mediterranean Sea, in the Barcelona metropolitan area. By popu ...
the group got 1,557 votes (1.82%). In
Girona Province
Girona (; es, Gerona ; french: Gérone) is a province of Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is bordered on the northwest by the province of Lleida, on the southwest by the province of Barcelona, on the n ...
the group only contested the
Girona
Girona (officially and in Catalan language, Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter River, Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in ...
municipal election, where it got 1,384 votes (3.78%). With 0.09% of the Spanish vote, ''Comunistes de Catalunya'' was the most voted party which failed to win a single councillor seat.
CCC took part in the
National Liberation Left Bloc
Left Bloc for National Liberation ( ca, Bloc d'Esquerra d'Alliberament Nacional, BEAN) was a coalition and, later, political party in Catalonia and Valencia, Spain. BEAN was an independentist and socialist party, that defended a Socialist Federal ...
(BEAN) and in the founding of
Left Nationalists
Left Nationalists ( ca, Nacionalistes d'Esquerra; NE, NdE or Nd'E) was a Catalan socialist and independentist political organization founded in 1979 from historical militants of the Socialist Party of National Liberation (PSAN), National Front o ...