Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)

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Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) Partido Comunista Chileno (Acción Proletaria)
General Secretary	Eduardo Artés
Founded	November 8, 1979
Split from	Revolutionary Communist Party
Newspaper	Remolino Popular
Political orientation	Communism Anti-revisionism
International affiliation	ICOR WAP

Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) (PC(AP)) is an anti-revisionist party in Chile. It originated as the successor of the Revolutionary Communist Party, dismantled under the repressive conditions of the fascist military dictatorship.

History

Under the Dictatorship

As a clandestine organization, the PC(AP) played an active role against Pinochet's fascist regime, it sided with Revolutionary Resistence, the Unitary People's Action Movement (MAPU) and the Socialist Party (Vanguard) to form the Cordinator of Revolutionary Organizations, who's objective was «to advance the cause of the revolution and socialism». The COR was lately dismanteled by the represive wave after Pinochet's assasination attempt planned by the Patriotic Front Manuel Rodríguez (FPMR).

Return to Democracy

The PC(AP) sided with other revolutionary organizations like the MAPU, the Christian Left (IC) and the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). Since 2009 the party promotes the «Null Vote with Content» and started defending the idea of a constitutional assembly before many other so-called progressive and socialist parties did.

Modern day

The party tries to create a revolutionary alternative to the chilean two-party political system and the neoliberal legacy of the dictatorship. It actively participates in the student movement through their youth organization, the People's Student Movement (Corriente Estudiantil Popular in spanish or CEP), and it was involved in the mass demonstrations of 2019.

Ideology

Defence of Revolution

As the Succesor of the RCP, the PC(AP) heavily criticizes reformism and parliamentarism, calling to replace the current liberal parliament by an unicameral people's assembly. It has analyzed the Allende's government as a historical period and concluded the defeat against the fascist military coup was ultimately due to the idea that socialism can be achieved peacefully.

It defends the role of historical communist leaders in Chile, such as Luis Emilio Recabarren, Ricardo Fonseca, Elías Laferte, Miguel Enríquez and Mauricio Norambuena for upholding the uprising of the proletariat to overthrow capitalism.

Anti-imperialism

The party opposes the U.S. and European imperialism in the Americas, oftenly supporting the revolutionary and progressive governments in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

The party also has strong ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Getting to the point that Eduardo Artés, their General Secretary, has visited the DPRK and is one of the few Chileans that managed to do so.

Marxism-Leninism

The party has heavily critisized the "official" Communist Party and the Socialist Party for their revisionism and socialdemocratic deviancy. In practice both parties became part of the establishment and promote laws in the congress that contibute to the permanence of neoliberalism.

It's programm defends the necesity to «refound Chile» and transform it into a sovereign and idependent country with a socialist perspective.

It has also defended the historic leadership and experiences of Enver Hoxha's Albania, Mao Zedong's China, Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam, Lenin's and Stalin's USSR and Fidel Castro's Cuba.