Dominican Communist Party

Dominican Communist Party
Partido Comunista Dominicano
Founded1944
Registered1978
Legalized1961
1965
1978
Banned1947
1963
1966
Merged intoForce of the Revolution
NewspaperEl Popular
IdeologyMarxism-Leninism
Political positionLeft-wing
Election symbol
the open book with a machete

The Dominican Communist Party (Spanish: Partido Comunista Dominicano) was a political party in the Dominican Republic. The party was founded in 1944 under the name Dominican Revolutionary Democratic Party. The party worked under the name Dominican Popular Socialist Party from 1946 to 1965. In August 1965 the name was again changed, to Dominican Communist Party.[1]