Portuguese Communist Party

Partido Comunista Português, P.C.P.

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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Description of the flag

The flag is a red field with a big yellow sickle and hammer and star in the center and the full name of the party in yellow at the bottom.
Jorge Candeias, 03 Sep 1997

Presentation of P.C.P.

The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP - Partido Comunista Português) is a (even today) pro-soviet communist party, who is traditionally the 3rd political force in the country. It was founded in the early ’20ies and was the only party to fight our fascist regime in an organized manner from 1926 to 1974. Since then it has gone to every elections almost always in coalition with other smaller leftist parties. Except for the post-revolutionary provisional governments, never pa