Revolutionary Communist Party was a pro-China communist party

Communist party

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 in Chile

Chile

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 founded in 1966. The founders of PCR belonged to ESPARTACO (led by the Valparaíso

Valparaíso

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 senator Jaime Barros Pérez Cotapos), a group that had been expelled from the Communist Party of Chile

Communist Party of Chile

The Communist Party of Chile is a Chilean political party inspired by the thoughts of Karl Marx and Lenin. It was founded in 1922, as the continuation of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 1934 it established its youth wing, the Communist Youth of Chile .In the last legislative elections in Chile...

 (PCCh), and Revolutionary Communist Union, another splinter group of PCCh. PCR was led by Jorge Palacios and David Benquis.

PCR published El Pueblo and Causa Marxista-Leninista.

In 1984 PCR was one of three founding organizations of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement

Revolutionary Internationalist Movement

The defunct Revolutionary Internationalist Movement was an international Communist organization which upheld a version of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism founded in 1984 sought to "struggle for the formation of a Communist International of a new type, based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism"...

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PCR dissolved in internal strife. One section would refound itself as the Communist Organization Recabarren in 1985.