The Communist Organization of Spain (Bandera Roja) ( Spanish: ''Organización Comunista de España (Bandera Roja)'',

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: ''Organització Comunista d'Espanya - Bandera Roja''; OCE-BR), commonly known as Bandera Roja (''red flag'') was a

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party in

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. The newspaper of the organization was ''Bandera Roja''.

History

OCE-BR was founded in 1970 as a split of the

PSUC The Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia ( ca, Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, PSUC) was a communist political party active in Catalonia between 1936 and 1997. It was the Catalan branch of the Communist Party of Spain and the only party n ...

by a sector of its youth wing. The original name was Communist Organization-Red Flag. In 1973 OCE-BR adopted its later name and expanded throughout all

. The main goal of the organization was a democratic revolution against the

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, as the first step towards a full socialist revolution. OCE-BR was legalized in late 1977. The same year the party suffered a split in

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. The splitters, led by Joan Oms i Llohis, founded the Communist Collective of Catalonia. In 1989 OCE-BR joined the

again, finally disappearing as an organization in 1994.Mestre i Campi, Jesús (director). Diccionari d'Història de Catalunya. Edicions 62, 1998, p. 1.147 p.; p. 92 entrada: "Bandera Roja". .

References

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