Revolutionary Communist Party (Chile)

The Revolutionary Communist Party (Spanish: Partido Comunista Revolucionario / PCR) was a Chilean clandestine communist party of Maoist ideology founded in 1966 from a split in the Communist Party of Chile (PCCH).^[2][3] During the Popular Unity government, he adopted a critical stance towards the government of Salvador Allende. In 1972 the party faced an internal discussion over differences in revolutionary strategy, between those who defended the "people's war" (Maoists) and those who promoted the "mass insurrection" (Marxist-Leninists), causing the party to split into two factions (PCR and PCR-ML, respectively), both disappearing in the early 1980s.^[4]

Revolutionary Communist Party Partido Comunista Revolucionario
Founded	16 February 1966 (1966-02-16)^[1]
Dissolved	c. 1979 PCR-ML (in Chile) c. 1984 PCR (in exile)
Preceded by	Espartaco Vanguardia Revolucionaria Marxista Unión Comunista del Norte
Newspaper	El Pueblo Causa Marxista-Leninista A.N.C.H.A. A World to Win
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism Maoism (PCR faction) Anti-revisionism Anti-fascism
Political position	Far-left
Politics of Chile Political parties Elections

During part of its existence, it was financially financed by the Communist Party of China^[5] and by the Labor Party of Albania.^[6]

The PCR was led by Jorge Palacios, David Benquis and Luis Bernales.

After the 1973 Chilean coup, a faction of the party would exist in exil in France. In 1980, the RCP of Chile helped found Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) publishing the theoretical magazine "A World to Win"^[7] where the RCP of Chile made its last two participations in the 1981 and 1982 edition. Although the RCP of Chile would largely cease to exist by the time of the first RIM conference in 1984.^[8]

After the disappearance of the party in Chile, in 1979 the group "Acción Proletaria" emerged, made up of a small group of former PCR militants with a pro-Albanian tendency, including Miguel Asenjo, Mauricio Aravena and Eduardo Artés. This group would be the base that would form the Chilean Communist Party (Proletariat Action) in 1985.

The PCR dissolved amid internal strife. One section of the party later reconstituted itself as the Communist Organization Recabarren in 1985.

References

1. "Anti-Revisionism in Chile". www.marxists.org. marxists.org. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
2. Saba, Paul; Richards, Sam. "Chilean Revolutionary Communist Party Founded" (PDF). marxists.
3. Furci, Carmelo (2017-10-04), "Introducción", El Partido Comunista de Chile y la Vía al Socialismo, Historia (in Spanish), Santiago: Ariadna Ediciones, pp. 21–30, ISBN 978-2-8218-9589-8, retrieved 2023-01-06
4. "Archivo Chile CEME". www.archivochile.com. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
5. "PARTIDO COMUNISTA REVOLUCIONARIO (PCR) Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionario (MIR) Agrupaciones Rojas ÍNDICE CRONOLÓGICO DE DOCUMENTOS" (PDF). p. 50. Hay informaciones de que acuerdos semejantes entre organizaciones LatinoAmericanas y Europeas, marxistas- leninistas de la línea china han sido establecidas con la finalidad de combatir a los Partido Comunistas que siguen la orientación de Moscú.- De acuerdo con tales informaciones (…) que China pretende reunir en un solo grupo los siguientes Partidos y Organizaciones: -Partido Comunista Argentino.- -Partido Comunista Boliviano.- -Partido Comunista del Brasil.- -Ejército Popular de Liberación de Colombia.- -Partido Comunista Revolucionario de Chile.- -Partido Comunista Revolucionario de Uruguay.
6. Molla, Ylli (2016). Guerilas made in Albania: historia e Arafatit, Kabilës, Lulës, Amazonas dhe luftëtarëve nga 11 shtete, që u përgatitën politikisht dhe ushtarakisht nga pedagogët shqiptarë (in Albanian). Botart. ISBN 978-9928-219-00-8.
7. "ENTRE EL PAPEL Y LA METRALLA. Apuntes para la historia de la prensa clandestina en la primera etapa del Chile dictatorial ( ) - PDF Descargar libre". docplayer.es. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
8. "RIM Documents and Statements". bannedthought.net. Retrieved 2022-09-09.