Union of Communist Struggles

Union of Communist Struggles (, ULC) was a

Communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

in the country now known as

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 the ...

. ULC was formed out of a split of 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). It was constituted on 14 October 1979. ULC promoted 'Popular and Democratic Revolution' (RDP). In 1981 ULC dissolved. In 1983 it was reconstituted, and known as

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(ULC-R). The ULC published ''Prolétaire'' and ''Révolution Bolchévique''. Communist parties in Burkina Faso Defunct political parties in Burkina Faso Political parties established in 1979 Maoist organizations Maoism in Africa {{BurkinaFaso-party-stub