Union of Burkinabè Communists (in
French: ''Union des Communistes Burkinabè'') was a
communist party
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in
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to ...
. UCB was founded in August 1984 by the
Group for the Unity of Marxists-Leninists (''Groupe pour l'Unité des Marxistes-Léninistes'', GUML, founded in 1983), the
Marxist-Leninist Group (''Groupe Marxiste-Léniniste'', founded 1979 as split from
PCRV) and one other group.
In 1986 it signed the appeal of four organizations for revolutionary unity and support to the revolutionary government of
Thomas Sankara
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (; 21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military officer, Marxist–Leninist revolutionary, and Pan-Africanist, who served as President of Burkina Faso from his coup in 1983 to his deposition a ...
.
In 1987 Sankara tried to marginalize UCB. This was one of the factor that provoked the coup d'état, as UCB was close to the coup leader
Blaise Compaoré
Blaise Compaoré (born 3 February 1951)''Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders'' (2003), page 76–77. . Together with smaller groups the UCB founded the
Organization for Popular Democracy - Labour Movement
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in 1989.
Formerly ruling communist parties
Political parties established in 1984
Defunct political parties in Burkina Faso
Communist parties in Burkina Faso
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