The Communist Labour Party ( es, Partido Comunista Obrero, abbreviated PCO) was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

in Colombia. The party was led by Augusto Durán and was born out of a right-wing split in the

Colombian Communist Party The Colombian Communist Party ( es, Partido Comunista Colombiano, PCC) is a legal communist party in Colombia. It was founded in 1930 as the Communist Party of Colombia, at which point it was the Colombian section of the Comintern, and changed i ...

in mid-1947. Durán, who had been the general secretary of the Communist Party, and his followers had wanted that the Communist Party would support the presidential candidature of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. Durán became the general secretary of PCO. The PCO published ''Clase Obrera''. The PCO became short-lived, after three years most PCO members had rejoined the Communist Party.

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