Red Flag Party
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Red Flag Party Partido Bandera Roja | |
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| Leader | Gabriel Puerta Aponte |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Headquarters | Caracas,Venezuela |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-Chavismo Anti-revisionism Hoxhaism |
| Political position | Left-wingtofar-left |
| National affiliation | Democratic Alliance |
| Colours | Red |
| National Assembly | 0 / 277 |
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TheRed Flag Party(Spanish:Partido Bandera Roja) is acommunist partyinVenezuela.Formed in 1970 byanti-revisionistmembers of theRevolutionary Left Movement(MIR), the party initially supported theideologyofEnver Hoxhaand theParty of Labour of Albaniafollowing theSino-Albanian split,though in later years it gravitated back towardsChina.In the 1970s up until the 1990s, it was engaged inguerrilla warfareagainst the government. A youngHugo Chávez's first assignment in theVenezuelan Armywas as commander of a communicationsplatoonattached to acounter-insurgencyforce—the Manuel Cedeño Mountain Infantry Battalion, headquartered in Barinas and Cumaná. In 1976, under the presidency ofCarlos Andrés Pérezit was tasked with suppressing the guerrilla insurgency staged by the party.
The Red Flag Party is currently led by Gabriel Rafael Puerta Aponte. After theelectoral victory of Chávez in 1998,the party started aligning itself with theliberalandsocial democraticopponents of Chávez, labeling him as asocial fascist.This has led to desertions from the party as many cadres instead joined the Chávez camp. The party was suspended from theInternational Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)in 2005. It was succeeded within the organization by theMarxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela.
In the2006 presidential election,the Red Flag Party supported the candidature ofManuel Rosales.The party got 18,468 votes (0.16% of the nationwide vote) in that election as one of several parties backing Rosales.[1]As of 2009, its popularity has rapidly diminished from its prior years and is reported to have less than 100militantmembers. In 2014, the party left theDemocratic Unity Tabledue to disagreements over objectives and not considering the coalition capable of placing itself on the forefront of people's struggles.[2]
Youth wing
[edit]The youth wing of the party is the Revolutionary Youth Union (UJR).
See also
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Elección Presidencial - 3 de Diciembre de 2006".Archived fromthe originalon 6 December 2006.Retrieved4 December2006.
- ^Noticia al Dia (ed.)."Bandera Roja se separa de la MUD".Archived fromthe originalon 7 September 2014.Retrieved7 September2014.
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