Union Of Communist Struggles

The Union of Communist Struggles – Reconstructed (, ULC-R) was a communist party in

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...

. ULC-R was formed in 1983 as a continuation of the Union of Communist Struggles (ULC). Generally ULC-R was simply called 'ULC'. ULC-R promoted 'Popular and Democratic Revolution' (RDP). The ULC-R supported the revolutionary government of

Thomas Sankara Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (; 21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabè military officer, Marxist and Pan-Africanist revolutionary who served as the President of Burkina Faso from 1983, following his takeover in a coup, until ...

. From August 3, 1983 to August 1984, the ULC-R held three ministerial posts. Its support for Sankara's government provoked the ULC-R section in

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to split away from the mother organization. After the break between Sankara and the Patriotic League for Development (LIPAD) in August 1984, the position of the ULC-R was somewhat strengthened. The ULC-R held four cabinet posts in the new government, Basile Guissou (Foreign Affairs), Adele Ouédrago (Budget), Alain Coeffé (Transport and Communications) and Joséphine Ouédraogo (Family and National Solidarity). In 1987, Sankara tried to marginalize a dissident faction of the ULC-R. This was one of the factors that provoked the

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. In 1989, the ULC-R resigned from the government, following its refusal to go along with the formation of the

Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement The Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement () was the ruling political party in Burkina Faso from 1989 to 1996. It was founded in April 1989 by the Union of Burkinabè Communists, the Revolutionary Military Organization (OMR) and f ...

(ODP/MT). The ULC-R entered a clandestine existence. The government tried to rally dissidents of ULC-R into its new party. On March 1990, it was renamed the Party of Social Democracy. Communist parties in Burkina Faso Defunct communist parties Defunct political parties in Burkina Faso Formerly ruling communist parties Political parties established in 1983 {{CP-stub