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founded on April 13, 1921 by the ''terceristas'', including Virginia González Polo,

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, Manuel Núñez Arenas, Luis Mancebo and Evaristo Gil, who had been trying to persuade the

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(PSOE) to join the Third International. When the PSOE Congress voted to join the Vienna International and refused

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, the ''terceristas'' broke away. A new

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was founded on November 14, 1921 through an act of merger of Partido Comunista Español and Partido Comunista Obrero Español. The unified PCE soon adhered to the Comintern.

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