Group of Popular Combatants | |
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Grupos de Combatientes Populares | |
Dates of operation | 1994- |
Country | Ecuador |
Allegiance | PCMLE |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-left |
Opponents | Government of Ecuador |
The Group of Popular Combatants (Spanish: Grupos de Combatientes Populares, GCP)[1] is a far-left Marxist–Leninist insurgent movement active in the Republic of Ecuador. It is the armed wing of the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (Spanish: Partido Comunista Marxista–Leninista del Ecuador, PCMLE), a party formed in 1964 as a split from the Communist Party of Ecuador and internationally affiliated with the International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle). The party belongs to an anti-revisionist tradition of Marxism–Leninism, one originally aligned with Albania during the Cold War and frequently referred to as Hoxhaism.