Workers Politics Communist Organisation (in

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

: ''Organização Comunista Política Operária'') was a communist group in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

. OCPO was founded in September 1985, following a split from

Communist Party (Reconstructed) Communist Party (Reconstructed) ( pt, Partido Comunista Português (reconstruído)), initially known as Portuguese Communist Party (Reconstructed) ( pt, Partido Comunista Português (Reconstruído), links=no), was a political party in Portugal. H ...

. OCPO published ''Política Operária'' whose editor was the late

Francisco Martins Rodrigues Francisco Martins Rodrigues (1927, Moura - April 22, 2008) was a Portuguese anti-Fascist resistant and the founder of the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee in 1964, which was one of the country's first major Marxist-Leninist organizations. Ro ...

. In the early 1990s OCPO was dissolved, but the publication of PO as a bimonthly theoretical magazine has continued until Francisco Martins Rodrigues death in 2008. He died of cancer in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 22, 2008, at the age of 81. His funeral and cremation was held at the Cemitério do Alto São João.

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