The Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization (in Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

: Organização Comunista Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa or OCMLP) was a Portuguese

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 far-left political party, founded in 1973 after the merger between two minor communist grouping, the group around the journal O Comunista (split from the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee

Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee

Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee was a communist organization in Portugal. CM-LP was formed in March 1964 by a group led by Francisco Martins Rodrigues. Martins, who was a Central Committee Member of the Portuguese Communist Party, had split from PCP in January the same year...

) and O Grito do Povo (a group based in Northern Portugal). The party achieved some political expression in the last years of the fascist regime of Marcello Caetano, mainly in Paris, among a community of exiled politicians.

In December 1974 OCMLP launched the Communist Electoral Front (marxist-leninist)

Communist Electoral Front (marxist-leninist)

Communist Electoral Front was a political movement in Portugal. FEC was launched by Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization in December 1974, and it held its first congress in January 1975. FEC participated in the Constituent Assembly elections....

 (FEC(m-l)), with which it participated in the 1975 Constituent Assembly elections.

The main publication of OCMLP was O Grito do Povo. The theoretical publication of OCMLP was Foice e Martello.

In December 1975, it merged with the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee

Popular Unity Party (Portugal)

Popular Unity Party was a political party in Portugal. PUP was founded in December 1974 by the Mendes fraction of the Communist Party of Portugal ....

 and the Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)

Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)

Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party was a communist group in Portugal led by Francisco Martins Rodrigues...

, forming the Portuguese Communist Party (Reconstructed) or PCP(R). Just prior to the merger, OCMLP had passed through a split. The majority, with strong base in Porto

Porto

Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...

, went through with the merger plans. A minority, who kept strong emphasis on the issue of struggle against "social fascism

Social fascism

Social fascism was a theory supported by the Communist International during the early 1930s, which believed that social democracy was a variant of fascism because, in addition to a shared corporatist economic model, it stood in the way of a complete and final transition to communism...

", refused to join and continued a separate existence.