The People's Democratic Union (Portuguese: União Democrática Popular or UDP) was a Portuguese communist party of maoist influence. The party is now transformed into a political association in its last congress in 2005 due to the merger with other left-wing parties in the Leftwing Bloc. Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought (Chinese: 毛澤東思想, pinyin: Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng), also called Marxism-Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM), is a variant of communism derived from the teachings of Mao Zedong (1893–1976). ... Leftwing Bloc (Portuguese: Bloco de Esquerda) is a Portuguese left-wing political party founded in 1999. ...

The party was originated after an alliance between the Committee of Support to the Imprisoned Revolutionaries (Portuguese: Comité de Apoio aos Revolucionários Presos or CARP) and the Revolutionary Communists Committee (Portuguese: Comité Comunistas Revolucionários or CCR) that was formed in order to run to the "bourgeois electoral process", the first free election in Portugal, in 1975. The party elected one MP in that election and also in the subsequent elections until 1983. After that it ran integrated in the electoral lists of the Portuguese Communist Party until 1991. The Portuguese legislative election of 1975 took place on April 25, exactly one year after the Carnation Revolution and was the first free legislative election in fifty years, the first in the new democratic regime created after the revolution which made the turnout the highest ever. ... PCPs official symbol, featuring the hammer and sickle and the Portuguese national colors, red and green. ...

In 1998 it became part of the Leftwing Bloc after a merger with other small left-wing parties, the Revolutionary Socialist Party, the Politics 21 and the Front of the Revolutionary Left. Leftwing Bloc (Portuguese: Bloco de Esquerda) is a Portuguese left-wing political party founded in 1999. ... Revolutionary Socialist Party is the name of several leftist political parties around the world: Revolutionary Socialist Party (UK) Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) Revolutionary Socialist Party (Sweden) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

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