Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party (french: Parti communiste révolutionnaire voltaïque, PCRV) is a
communist party in
Burkina Faso. It was founded on 1 October 1978, following a split in the
Voltaic Communist Organization
Voltaic Communist Organization (, OCV) was a communist party in the country now known as Burkina Faso. It was founded in 1971 out of the student milieu. In 1978 OCV split in two, the pro-China Communist Struggle Union (ULC) and the pro-Albanian ...
(OCV).
The PCRV follows the political line of the now defunct
Albanian Party of Labour
The Party of Labour of Albania ( sq, Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë, PPSh), sometimes referred to as the Albanian Workers' Party (AWP), was the ruling and sole legal party of Albania during the communist period (1945–1991). It was founded on ...
,
an
anti-revisionist
Anti-revisionism is a position within Marxism–Leninism which emerged in the 1950s in opposition to the reforms of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Where Khrushchev pursued an interpretation that differed from his predecessor Joseph Stalin, ...
variant of
Marxism-Leninism which came to be known as
Hoxhaism. It promoted a "national democratic and popular revolution" (, RNDP).
The
1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état
On 4 August 1983 a coup d'état was launched in the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso) in an event sometimes referred to as the August revolution ( French: ''Révolution d'août'') or Burkinabé revolution. It was carried out by radical ...
elevated
Thomas Sankara to power. At that time, the PCRV had powerful links in the trade unions and student movements. The party, however, refused to participate in Sankara's revolutionary government, arguing that a military coup was not the same as a popular revolution. In 1984, it again refused to participate in the government during a cabinet reshuffle. This led to a split and the formation of the
Burkinabé Communist Group
The Burkinabè Communist Group (french: Groupe Communiste Burkinabè, GCB) was a communist party in Burkina Faso. The GCB surged as a split from the Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party in 1983, following the refusal of PCRV to support the revol ...
.
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The PCRV is a participant in the or ICMLPO.
The party publishes ''Bug-Parga''.
]
References
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Communist parties in Burkina Faso
International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
Anti-revisionist organizations
Stalinist parties
Hoxhaist parties
Clandestine groups
Political parties established in 1978
Political parties in Burkina Faso
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