Breton Communist Party
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: Parti communiste Breton) was a separatist
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and communist
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(Maoist
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-Guevarist
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) political party
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in Brittany
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, France
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. The group was founded in 1971, and had the historian Kristian Hamon as a notable member. It ceased to exist in 1980.