Paraguayan Communist Party (independent) (in
Spanish
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: ''Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente'') is a communist
political party
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in
Paraguay
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. PCP(i) was founded in 1967 as a split from the
Paraguayan Communist Party
The Paraguayan Communist Party (in Spanish: ''Partido Comunista Paraguayo'') is a communist political party in Paraguay. PCP was founded on 19 February 1928. Later, it was recognized as a section of the Communist International. It was brutally s ...
(PCP). Since the defeat of the guerrilla groups led by the PCP in 1963, opposition to the party leader Oscar Creydt in the PCP had grown. He was first criticised for his authoritarian behaviour and later for his anti-Cuban and pro-Chinese positions. He was deposed as secretary general in August 1965 and excluded from the party in 1967. His party faction first kept the same name as the pro-soviet faction but since 1973 “independent” was added to the party name.
Many of the activities of the PCP(i) were directed against the PCP. The party was subjected to harsh repression by the regime of
Alfredo Stroessner
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (; 3 November 1912 – 16 August 2006) was a Paraguayan politician, army general and Military dictatorship, military dictator who ruled as the 42nd president of Paraguay from 15 August 1954 until his overthrow in 19 ...
. It publishes “Unidad Paraguaya”. When Creydt died in 1987 the party was very weak. When Stroessner fell in 1989 the party stayed in a semi-clandestinity.
International relations
The PCP(i) was a maoist party. Oscar Creydt visited China in 1977 and 1980 and supported the political orientation of the post-Mao regime. The PCP(i) today is a member party of the maoist International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations.
The maoist PCP and its successor the PCP(i) are sometimes called Paraguayan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) or Communist Party of Paraguay.
See also
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List of anti-revisionist groups
The following are Marxist–Leninist groups that are or historically were considered to be anti-revisionist, i.e. groups that uphold the opinion that the Soviet Union diverged from socialist practice in 1956 under the leadership of Nikita Khrushc ...
Footnotes
References
* Alexander, Robert J., ''Maoism in the Developing World'', Praeger Publishers, Westport, 1999, p.149-151
* Alexander, Robert J., ''Political Parties of the Americas, Canada, Latin America and the West Indies'', Greenwood Press, Westport, 1982, p. 578-579
* Akademie für Gesellschaftswissenschaften beim Zentralkomitee der SED, Institut für Imperialismusforschung, Institut für Internationale Arbeiterbewegung. Dokumentation. Die auf die heutige Pekinger Führung orientierten, die linksradikalen, die guerilleristischen Gruppen und die pseudolinken Terroristen-Gruppierungen in der kapitalistischen Welt. Ende der 70er/Anfang der 80er Jahre, October 1980 (Berlin), p. 213
* Hobday, Charles, Communist and Marxist Parties of the World, Longman Group, Harlow 1986, p. 369
* Lo Bianco, Miguel, Oscar Creydt. Luces y sombras, in: Pensamiento Crítico en el Paraguay. Memoria del Ciclo de Conversatorios 2014, BASE-IS, Asunción, 2014, p. 75-92
* Nickson, Andrew, Oscar Creydt. Una biografía, El Lector, Asunción, 2011
* Rosales, Humberto, Historia del Parido Comunista Paraguayo (1928 - 1990), 2009
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