Sharing the Iberian Room in a “Common Home”? The Portuguese Communist Party and the Communist Party of Spain in a Changing Europe, 1985-1994
The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) evolved from divergence to convergence in the face of European integration between 1985 and 1994. Both parties started from opposite positions since the times of the struggle against the dictatorships of Salazar and Franco,...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/123418 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/123418 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 327(4) 141.82(460) 32(47+57)"1985/1991" Partido Comunista de España (PCE) Partido Comunista Portugués (PCP) Guerra Fría Perestroika Integración europea Historia contemporánea Relaciones internacionales 5504.02 Historia Contemporánea 5901 Relaciones Internacionales |
| Sumario: | The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) evolved from divergence to convergence in the face of European integration between 1985 and 1994. Both parties started from opposite positions since the times of the struggle against the dictatorships of Salazar and Franco, when the PCP aligned itself with the Moscow orthodox line while the PCE opted for Eurocommunist heterodoxy. Gorbachev’s theses on the “common European house”, perestroika, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War forced the two Iberian communist parties to position themselves before vertiginous changes that also had their translation in European construction. The changes in the international relations, the form that European construction took with the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, and the anti-capitalist and third-world turn to the left that the PCE gave as of 1988 facilitated a convergence with the PCP that resulted in cooperation between both in the European Parliament. This article analyses the evolution of the ideological positions and the tactical decisions of two main Iberian communist parties through documents, press, speeches, statements, parliamentary debates of both organizations and, when possible, their historical archives. |
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