Spanish Communist Party

The Spanish Communist Party (Partido Comunista Español), was a political party that existed in Spain from 1930 after it split from the Spanish Bolshevik Party until 1989. Between 1939 and 1989, the Communist Party was in full control of Spain and established a known as the Spanish Democratic Republic in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War from 1939 until 1939 as a successor to the.

Following the end of the civil war, the party was lead by Fernando Ocampo who implemented Five-year plans to rebuild the destroyed infrastructure of the country and also pushed for increased rates of literacy and education in the country with his literacy campaigns and educational reforms. This helped rebuild Spain and also enforced nationalization policies to help reform the industrial sector and used the to help boost Spain's economic development similar to that of the United States at the same time. Spain joined on the side of the Allies and managed to repel a potential invasion by the Axis Powers through and Spain came out victorious when the Axis Powers in Europe surrendered in 1945.

After the war ended, the Spanish Communist Party implemented new programs to modernize the country and aligned itself with the led by the  sparking a major geopolitical issue throughout the  as Spain would be an ire in the sides of the  during the turbulent time period. The party took an alternate direction in the 1950s as Spain retained a neutrality policy with the Western Powers, but remained aligned with the Soviet Union under the administration of Jonatán Alcocer as General Secretary. Alcocer fell under the influence of the Soviet Union to the point where he was pressured to resign in a bloodless coup by Juan Andrés Montenegro in 1968. That same year, Juan instituted a new policy of National Communism and made Spain an independent player in the realm of politics and within the Communist bloc as a whole.