Popular Unity Party (Portugal)

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Popular Unity Party
Founded1974
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism[1]
PUP poster

Popular Unity Party (Portuguese: Partido de Unidade Popular) was a political party in Portugal. PUP was founded in December 1974 by the Mendes fraction of the Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist-Leninist).[citation needed]

The PUP published a newspaper called Averdade (The Truth). It rejected parliamentary democracy and sought to create a people's republic of poor workers and peasants.[1]

After the 1975 elections PUP was renamed Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee (Comité Marxista-Leninista Português).[citation needed]

In 1976 CMLP merged with the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization and the Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) to form the Portuguese Communist Party (Reconstructed).[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Coming to the Aid of the Party". The Guardian. 24 March 1975. p. 3. Retrieved 5 January 2021.