Catalan Communist Party
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Catalan Communist Party (in Catalan
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: Partit Comunista Català) was a political party
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 in Catalonia
Catalonia
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, Spain
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. PCC was founded in 1928. It had its origins in l'Ateneu Enciclopèdic Popular, which had been formed in 1926, and in the Marxist sectors of the Catalan separatist movement. PCC had around 300 members, mainly in Barcelona
Barcelona
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 and Lleida
Lleida
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.

The party published L'Opinió (1928-1929), and later L'Andreuenc and Treball.

The main leaders of PCC were Jordi Arquer and Víctor Colomer.

In November 1930 PCC merged into the Catalan-Balearic Communist Federation (FCCB).
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