Spanish Communist Workers' Party (1921)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Spanish Communist Workers' Party" 1921 – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Part of a series on the
Communist Party of Spain
History Spanish Communist Party Comintern Popular Front Spanish Civil War Antifascist Worker and Peasant Militias Fifth Regiment Francoist Spain Eurocommunism Left Opposition Spanish transition to democracy Workers' Commissions United Left
Ideology Communism Marxism–Leninism Feminism Republicanism Internationalism Federalism Secularism Laïcité
Secretaries-General Antoni García (1921–1923) César Rodríguez (1923–1925) José Bullejos (1925–1932) José Díaz (1932–1942) Dolores Ibárruri (1942–1960) Santiago Carrillo (1960–1982) Gerardo Iglesias (1982–1988) Julio Anguita (1988–1998) Francisco Frutos (1998–2009) José Luis Centella (2009–2017) Enrique Santiago (2018–present)
Regional branches Andalusia Aragon Asturias Balearic Islands Basque Country/Navarre Canary Islands Cantabria Castile and León Castilla–La Mancha Catalonia Extremadura Galicia Madrid Murcia La Rioja Valencian Country
Affiliations Communist Youth Union of Spain IMCWP The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL Movimiento Democrático de Mujeres Workers' Commissions
Media Euskadi Roja Mundo Obrero Nuestro Cinema Vanguardia
Related topics Sumar Unidas Podemos Women in the PCE
Communism portal Politics of Spain
v t e

The Spanish Communist Workers' Party (Partido Comunista Obrero Español) was a communist party founded on April 13, 1921 by the terceristas, including Virginia González Polo, Daniel Anguiano, Eduardo Torralba Beci, Manuel Núñez Arenas, Facundo Perezagua, Luis Mancebo, and Evaristo Gil,^[1] who had been trying to persuade the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) to join the Third International. When the PSOE Congress voted to join the Vienna International and refused Bolshevism, the terceristas broke away.

A new Communist Party of Spain was founded on November 14, 1921 through an act of merger of Partido Comunista Español and Partido Comunista Obrero Español. The unified PCE soon adhered to the Comintern.