Popular Socialist Party (Cuba)

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Popular Socialist Party
Partido Socialista Popular
Colors  Red
Party flag

The Popular Socialist Party (

Anibal Escalante, Fabio Grobart, Alfonso Bernal del Riesgo, and Julio Antonio Mella. Mella acted as the party's leader until his assassination in Mexico in 1929. The party later merged with the Revolutionary Union (Unión Revolucionaria) to form the Communist Revolutionary Union (Unión Revolucionaria Comunista) on 13 August 1939. The party was renamed on 22 January 1944, but with the Auténticos
' victory in the 1944 elections, the party went into decline.

The party published the

daily newspaper
Hoy ("Today") until 1950.

History

The party was founded in 1925 with the help of

Comintern and would remain a member until the Comintern's dissolution in 1943.[1]

The party supported the first presidency of

labour unions, as well as his pro-American stance during World War II. As a result, two of the party's leaders, Juan Marinello Vidaurreta and Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, were successively appointed ministers without portfolio.[2]

The party formed an alliance with the

Orthodox Party in the 1944 general elections, but was defeated by the Auténticos-Republican alliance, winning only four seats in the House of Representatives. They went on to win five seats in the 1946 mid-term elections.[3]

In the 1948 general election, the party put forward Juan Marinello as its presidential candidate. While he finished fourth, the party won five seats in the House elections. They later won four in the 1950 mid-term elections.[3]

The Auténticos government under President Carlos Prío Socarrás banned the party's daily newspaper, Hoy, in 1950.[4] Following Fulgencio Batista's 1952 coup d'état, the party itself was banned, but it managed to continue publishing its newspaper.

The party was initially critical of Fidel Castro.[5] In 1961, the party merged into the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI), the precursor to the current Communist Party of Cuba.

References

Citations

  1. ^ Jeifets & Jeifets 2017, p. 97.
  2. ^ Hoy, 13 July 1940.
  3. ^ a b Nohlen 2005, p. 211.
  4. ^ Manke 2015, p. 240.
  5. ^ Dominguez & Prevost 2008, p. 44.

Sources

Books

  • Dominguez, Esteban Morales; Prevost, Gary (7 March 2008). United States-Cuban Relations: A Critical History. Lexington Books. .
  • Hudson, Rex A. (2002). Cuba: A Country Study. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. .
  • Manke, Albert (2015). "Chinese in the Cuban revolution". Ethnicity as a Political Resource: Conceptualizations across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods. Transcript Verlag. pp. 237–252.
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