| Spanish Communist Party Partido Comunista Español | |
|---|---|
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| General Secretary |
Fernando Ocampo (first) Milagros París (last) |
| Slogan |
¡Trabajadores del mundo, únanse! Workers of the world unite! |
| Founded | April 16th, 1930 |
| Dissolved | May 8th, 1989 |
| Split from | Spanish Bolshevik Party |
| Succeeded by | Communist Party of Spain |
| Headquarters | Madrid |
| Newspaper | Workers' Daily |
| Youth wing | Young Revolutionary Front |
| Paramilitary wing | Guardias patrióticos |
| Ideology |
Communism Marxism-Leninism National communism (after 1968) |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Official colours |
Red |
| Anthem | The Internationale |
| Party flag | |
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The Spanish Communist Party (Spanish; Partido Comunista Español), was a communist 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 socialist state known as the Spanish Democratic Republic in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War from 1939 until 1939 as a successor to the Second Spanish Republic.
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 Second World War 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 Vichy France 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 Warsaw Pact led by the Soviet Union sparking a major geopolitical issue throughout the Cold War as Spain would be an ire in the sides of the Western Bloc 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.