Communist Labour Party (Colombia)

The Communist Labour Party (Spanish: Partido Comunista Obrero, abbreviated PCO) was a political party in Colombia. The party was led by Augusto Durán and was born out of a right-wing split in the Colombian Communist Party in mid-1947.[1][2] Durán, who had been the general secretary of the Communist Party, and his followers had wanted that the Communist Party would support the presidential candidature of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.[2][3] Durán became the general secretary of PCO.[4] The PCO published Clase Obrera.[1][5] The PCO became short-lived, after three years most PCO members had rejoined the Communist Party.[1]

Communist Labour Party
Partido Comunista Obrero
Founded1947

References
  1. Diego Jaramillo Salgado (1 January 2007). Satanización del socialismo y del comunismo en Colombia 1930-1953. Universidad del Cauca, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Departamento de Filosofía. p. 181. ISBN 978-958-9451-29-8.
  2. Christine Sixta Rinehart (2013). Volatile Social Movements and the Origins of Terrorism: The Radicalization of Change. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 97–98. ISBN 978-0-7391-7770-9.
  3. Richard E. Sharpless (15 February 1978). Gaitán of Colombia: A Political Biography. University of Pittsburgh Pre. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-8229-7619-6.
  4. Revista javeriana, Vol. 31. Imprenta del C. de Jesús. 1949. p. 128.
  5. Hernán Arbeláez Arbeláez (1 January 1999). Colombia: agredida y humillada. Litografía Ucrós, Ltda. p. 38. ISBN 978-958-96415-1-4.


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