Communist Party of Chile Partido Comunista de Chile | |
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| Leader | Guillermo Teillier |
| Founder | Luis Emilio Recabarren |
| Founded | 4 June 1912 |
| Newspaper | El Siglo |
| Youth wing | Communist Youth of Chile |
| Membership (2017) | 52,356 |
The Communist Party of Chile, originally called the Socialist Workers' Party, is a communist party in Chile.
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History
The Communist Party of Chile was founded in 1912 and was known as the Socialist Workers' Party until 1922.[1] In 1969, It joined the Popular Unity alliance with the Socialist Party of Chile and various other leftist parties in the country. The party supported Salvador Allende, a socialist who was elected president in 1970. After Augusto Pinochet's CIA-supported coup in 1973, the party was banned.[2] In 1983, it established a guerrilla organization and was legalized in 1990 after the Pinochet's junta ended.
References
- ↑ José Luis Rubio (1971). The workers' internationals in America (Spanish: Las internacionales obreras en América) (p. 61). Madrid.
- ↑ "Remembering the 1973 Chile coup: A useful lesson about the “peaceful transition” to Socialism" (2016-09-11). In Defense of Communism. Retrieved 2022-01-09.