The Communist Party of Spain (8th and 9th Congresses) (in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

: Partido Comunista de España (VIII y IX Congresos)) was a pro-Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 splinter group of Communist Party of Spain

Communist Party of Spain

The Communist Party of Spain is the third largest national political party in Spain. It is the largest member organization of the United Left electoral coalition and has influence in the largest trade union in Spain, Workers' Commissions ....

 (PCE).

PCE (VIII-IX) was one of many groups that broke away from PCE during the period when Santiago Carrillo

Santiago Carrillo

Santiago Carrillo Solares is a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain from 1960 to 1982.- Childhood and early youth :...

 held the post of PCE general secretary and directed the party towards Eurocommunism

Eurocommunism

Eurocommunism was a trend in the 1970s and 1980s within various Western European communist parties to develop a theory and practice of social transformation that was more relevant in a Western European democracy and less aligned to the influence or control of the Communist Party of the Soviet...

; it was founded in 1971. A prominent leader of the new party was Augustín Gómez. It published a magazine called Mundo Obrero (same name as the publication of PCE).

In 1980 PCE (VIII-IX) fused with Workers' Communist Party

Workers' Communist Party (Spain)

Workers Communist Party was a political party in Spain. Formed in 1977 by the Left Opposition of PCE.PCT had a youth wing called Workers' Communist Youth...

 to form the Unified Communist Party of Spain. PCEU was later instrumental in creating the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain is a communist political party in Spain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of several Marxist-Leninist factions. The youth organization is called the Collectives of Communist Youth.On December 13–15 of 1984 a "Communist Unity Congress" was held...

 in 1982.